The First Homosexuals

A groundbreaking, global survey of&,nbsp,queer art, featuring&,nbsp,more than 300 artworks made&,nbsp,following the introduction of the term ‘homosexual’ in&,nbsp,1869An unprecedented and historic new book,&,nbsp,The First Homosexuals&,nbsp,traces the evolution of the homosexual identity through an archive of&,nbsp,more than 300&,nbsp,paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and film stills from around the world&,nbsp,–&,nbsp,many presented in a queer, global, and colonial&,nbsp,context for the first time. Accompanying the works are twenty-two original, insightful essays by leading experts in art and queer history, each focusing on one geographical region&,nbsp,–&,nbsp,from Japan to Australia to the Indigenous populations of&,nbsp,South&,nbsp,America.&,nbsp,Ranging from well-known masterpieces to works by unknown artists and pieces rarely considered in the context of sexuality,&,nbsp,The First Homosexuals&,nbsp,offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art. The book accompanies a&,nbsp,groundbreaking exhibition of the same name&,nbsp,presented&,nbsp,at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.Featured artists include&,nbsp,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent,&,nbsp,Félix Vallotton,&,nbsp,Harriet Hosmer,&,nbsp,Katsushika Hokusai,&,nbsp,Kitagawa Utamaro,&,nbsp,Frederic Leighton,&,nbsp,Simeon Solomon,&,nbsp,Giovanni Boldini,&,nbsp,Jacques-Émile Blanche,&,nbsp,Berenice Abbott,&,nbsp,Clare Atwood,&,nbsp,Duncan Grant,&,nbsp,Laura Rodig,&,nbsp,Carl van Vechten,&,nbsp,Beauford Delaney,&,nbsp,Anna Klumpke,&,nbsp,Sarah Bernhardt,&,nbsp,Walter Sickert,&,nbsp,Florence Carlyle,&,nbsp,Florence Wyle&,nbsp,,&,nbsp,Frances Loring,&,nbsp,Ottilie Roederstein,&,nbsp,Florine Stettheimer&,nbsp,Nasta Rojc,&,nbsp,Glyn Philpot,&,nbsp,Romaine Brooks,&,nbsp,Ismael Nery,&,nbsp,Manuel Rodríguez Lozano,&,nbsp,Roberto Montenegro,&,nbsp,María Izquierdo,&,nbsp,Emilio Baz Viaud,&,nbsp,Konstantin Somov,&,nbsp,Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret,&,nbsp,Alice Austen,&,nbsp,Emilie Mundt,&,nbsp,Bertha Wegmann,&,nbsp,Thomas Anshutz,&,nbsp,Marsden Hartley,&,nbsp,Charles Demuth,&,nbsp,Marie Laurencin,&,nbsp,Gerda Wegener,&,nbsp,Lili Elbe,&,nbsp,Gregorio Prieto,&,nbsp,Jorge Larco,&,nbsp,Pavel Tchelitchew,&,nbsp,Andrey Avinoff,&,nbsp,Gustave Courtois,&,nbsp,Carlos Baca-Flor,&,nbsp,Gustave Moreau,&,nbsp,Henry Scott Tuke,&,nbsp,Sascha Schneider,&,nbsp,Ludwig von Hofmann,&,nbsp,Max Oppenheimer,&,nbsp,Eugene Jansson,&,nbsp,Osmar Schindler,&,nbsp,George Platt Lynes,&,nbsp,Agnes Goodsir,&,nbsp,Tamara de Lempicka,&,nbsp,Pedro Lira,&,nbsp,Wilhelm von Gloeden,&,nbsp,Ladislav Mednyánszky,&,nbsp,F. Holland Day,&,nbsp,Kristian Zahrtmann,&,nbsp,Violet Oakley,&,nbsp,Rupert Bunny,&,nbsp,Saturnino Herrán,&,nbsp,David Paynter,&,nbsp,Lionel Wendt,&,nbsp,Richmond Barthé,&,nbsp,Richard Bruce Nugent,&,nbsp,Lady Una Troubridge,&,nbsp,Jean Cocteau,&,nbsp,Léon Bakst,&,nbsp,Lumiere Brothers,&,nbsp,Marie Höeg &,amp, Bolette Berg,&,nbsp,José Guadalupe Posada,&,nbsp,Claude Cahun,&,nbsp,Toyen,&,nbsp,Toni Ebel, and&,nbsp,Elisar von Kupffer (Elisarion).