• Comprehensive survey covering 125 years of art that has constructed, contested or otherwise responded to alternative forms of sexuality • Includes a clear and authoritative survey essay, full-colour plates of over 250 works accompanied by explanatory captions, and a definitive collection of over 80 key historical documents, including statements by the artists, exhibition reviews, personal manifestos, sociological essays and critical writings • Traces the rich visual legacy of art’s relationship to queer culture, from the emergence of homosexuality as an identity in the late nineteenth century to the pioneering ‘genderqueers’ of the early twenty-first • Features widely admired artists such as Francis Bacon, Catherine Opie and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, as well as lesser known but important artists like Alvin Baltrop, Harmony Hammond and Lukas Duwenhoggerweiterlesen