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Freak to Chic: Gay Men in and Out of Fashion After Oscar Wilde

Freak to Chic: Gay Men in and Out of Fashion After Oscar Wilde

Janes, Dominic

Hardcover

Fashion & AccessoriesGeneral Gender StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 135017260X
ISBN13: 9781350172609
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: Aug 12 2021
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this unique intervention in the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes highlights that, under the gaze of social conservatism, 'gay' life was hiding in plain sight. Indeed, he argues that the worlds of glamour, fashion, art and countercultural style provided rich opportunities for the construction of queer spectacle in London. Inspired by the legacies of Oscar Wilde, interwar and later 20th-century men such as Cecil Beaton expressed transgressive desires in forms inspired by those labelled 'freaks' and, thereby, made major contributions to the histories of art, design, fashion, sexuality, and celebrity.

Janes reinterprets the origins of gay and queer cultures by charting the interactions between marginalized freaks and chic fashionistas. He establishes a new framework for future analyses of other cities and media, and of the roles of women and diverse identities.

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