Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput Magazine

Janes, Dominic (2021) Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput Magazine. Visual Culture in Britain. ISSN 1471-4787 (Print); 1941-8361 (Online)

Creators:
Janes, Dominic
Description/Abstract:

Francis Bacon made extensive use of photographs and other images from the visual culture of his time in the production of works that were implicitly queer. Homosexual men were widely represented in prose and through cartoons as camply effeminate 'pansies'. In the magazine Lilliput, by contrast, photographic spreads produced juxtapositions that evoked a range of responses to same-sex attraction from erotic engagement to nervous rejection. Studying the ways in which this and other magazines engaged with queer culture enables us to reassess the painter’s use of juxtaposed visual forms as acts of sexualised self-expression.

Item Type:
Article
Date:
4 January 2021
Identification Number:
10.1080/14714787.2020.1822755
Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
cartoons, collage, homosexuality, magazines, photography
Schools:
School of Fashion & Textiles
Depositing User:
Dominic Janes
Date Deposited:
13 Jan 2021 13:37
Last Modified:
05 Jul 2022 01:38
Janes, Dominic:
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3751-5326
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5513

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