“The Mirror-Like Sea”: A Bloomsbury Vision of Same-Sex Desire In Duncan Grant's Bathing, 1911
Originally installed as a mural in the London Borough Polytechnic, Duncan Grant’s Bathing (1911) provoked anxieties that it would lead to the moral decay of working-class youth. Employing critical theory, this article finds the root of those anxieties in the painting’s linkage of naked homosociality...
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Language: | English |
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Yale University
2016-11-01
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Series: | British Art Studies |
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Online Access: | http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-4/duncan-grant-bathing |