Outlooks

<p><em>Outlook</em> explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time as it tackles such burning issues as the advantage of adopting a queer perspective on past art, the responses of lesbian and gay artists to the AIDS crisis, and society's attempts to censor homosexual art.<br> This volume provides a space for lesbian and gay artists to exhibit their work and discuss its relationship to sexuality. It allows for a wide ranging theoretical and historical discussion of the place of lesbian and gay men within visual cultures and shows how much has been missed by a heterosexist approach to art history and the study of culture.<br> Richly illustrated, this book includes statements by contemporary lesbian and gay artists, photographers and performers as well as articles by art historians, cultural theorists and lesbians and gay activists.</p> <p><em>Emmanuel Cooper</em> on Francis Bacon. <em>Richard Dellamora</em> on Warhol and postmodernism. <em>Sunil Gupta</em> on race and queer ar. <em>Richard Kaye</em> on the gay icon of St Sebastian. <em>Wendy Leeks</em> on Ingres and the lesbian viewer. <em>Reina Lewis</em> and <em>Katrina Rolley</em> on lesbians and the fashion spread. <em>Thais Morgan</em> on lesbianism and nineteenth century aestheticism. <em>Carl Stychin</em> on the censorship of lesbian and gay art. <em>Simon Watney</em> on the visual poetics of mourning.</p>