JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME: History Painter Part Two The Artist and Gender In painting after painting, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) clearly demonstrated his discomfort with women. Before his very profitable marriage to the daughter of Europe’s biggest art dealer, Gérôme lived...
POST-COLONIAL THEORY PART ONE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized Just as Race is essentially an American phenomenon, Post-Colonial Theory is essentially a European phenomenon. While it is necessary to make a distinction between the very...
The Many Shades of Gay As the previous posts pointed out, many artists who were gay were caught up in attempts from various forces, both political and religious, to censor art. Confused and angered that art would be attacked in a land of free speech, the American art...
WHAT IS “QUEER?” “Queer” was once an insulting term of scorn and distaste applied to homosexuals and the aggressive appropriation of this term by the homosexual community as a defiant positive identification signaled a change from the meaning of the term...
NATIVE AMERICAN ART AND ARTISTS The “art world”—based in New York—was defined by exclusion: the exclusion of women, people of color, and certain kinds of art making. “Craft” is not considered “fine art,” and it is interesting to note that craft is often...
