Pictures And Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts - Hardcover

An account of gay and lesbian art from the classical Greeks to the present day, PICTURES AND PASSIONS not only deals fully with actual works about gay themes by identifiably gay artists or for gay patrons, but also devotes attention to criticism, art history and art theory from Plato to Camille Paglia. James Saslow's broad survey ranges from what can be known about prehistory and early societies to the twentieth century, the birth of modern gay studies, the impact of AIDS and the increasing openness of mainstream gay artists like Hockney and Mapplethorpe.

Educated at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, James Saslow teaches at Queens College City University of New York. He edited the Bibliography of Gay and Lesbian Art and has written several books publishedby Yale University Press.