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WHERE'S
THE BEEF?
A LOOK FOR (AND LACK OF) THE MALE EROTIC IMAGE IN CONTEMPORARY
ART.
IS THE TERM "HOMO-EROTIC" PEJORATIVE?
July 13, 2013
"An important issue I hadn't thought much about."
--Lucy Lippard, Independent Critic & Curator
"I read with great interest."
-- Raphael Rubinstein, Contributing Editor, Art In America
"You are a good writer."
--William Morrow, Curator, Denver Art Museum
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A look at the subtleties of female
vs. male erotic image representation in contemporary art-- a
feast and famine, respectively-- not only in museums and galleries,
but especially among the pages of the art world's chief ambassadors,
the hard-copy magazines. In a broader society where the terms
"post-black" and "post feminist" can be considered
de rigueur, "homo-erotic" makes questionable assumptions
about the viewer and is used to sequester male-themed work into
a polite, p.c. and invisible pigeon hole where even gays (and
the LGBT community as a whole) start to wonder if we actually
exist. Beyond issues of parity, however, the author calls for
male-image visibility for the sake of a reality beyond the material,
one that is in fact constructed by the brain and nurtured by
the images promulgated by artists, and one that helps allow all
of us to thus construct our own being. Where IS the beef? We've
met him. And he is us.
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