“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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Main Author: Vajdon Sohaili
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2016-11-01
Series:British Art Studies
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Online Access:http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-4/duncan-grant-bathing