Male Bodies Unmade

Download or read book Male Bodies Unmade written by Jongwoo Jeremy Kim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Male Bodies Unmade explores white men’s disunified physicality in modern and contemporary art while attending to erotic polysemy that questions the visual ethos of Occidental patriarchy. Art historian Jongwoo Jeremy Kim's approach is informed by his own status as an immigrant—a polyglot queen, drawn to extravagant fantasies of misbehaving bodies that are in truth foreign territories, colonies of misbelief. In six case studies focusing on configurations of irrational anatomy and horny self-extinction, this book celebrates the lessons and pleasures of disrupting art history’s hegemonically Western narratives.