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- Title
Dandies, Marginality and Modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp and other Cross-dressers.
- Authors
FILLIN-YEH, SUSAN
- Abstract
The article deals with the issue of marginality in nineteenth-century paintings of dandies. Representations of dandies in these paintings make marginality explicit because they are made visible to viewers in images of their fashion statements. The concept of a shifter is useful in understanding an aspect of the fit between dandyism and modernism, between dandyism as self-image and dandyism as self-defining artistic strategy. Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century images of female cross-dressing in the U.S. included photographs of fresh-faced, wholesome-looking beauties. These images almost promotes a utopian vision of sexual equality.
- Subjects
SOCIAL marginality in art; DANDYISM; CROSS-dressing in art; DRAG queens; THEMES in painting; THEMES in art
- Publication
Oxford Art Journal, 1995, Vol 18, Issue 2, p33
- ISSN
0142-6540
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxartj/18.2.33