'Demuth, Charles' in OBA Collectie

Grapples with the problems of identifying homosexual content in a work of art, showing how artists often used sexual codes to communicate to their subculture. The major part of the book is a discussion of Demuth's and Hartley's lives and works.

Homosexual culture has adapted many recognizable symbols. One figure that can be found throughout western gay male visual culture, dating even a century back, would be the sailor. In this paper will be discussed the way Paul Cadmus, Charles Demuth, and...

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a sed...