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Greg Barnes
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I work at an arts centre // Books, Male Figures in Art, LGBTQ+ History, Sexual Cultures & Sexual Labour // He-Him 🏳️‍🌈

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The most recent of these - co-edited with Katie Jones and Ben Mechen - was published open access by Manchester University Press earlier this year: Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present.

You can read / download it for free here www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
November 11, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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My third book Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of London in the 1920s and 1930s will be published as part of MUP's trade series next autumn.

Like the title suggests, it's a new history of the 1920s and 1930s - told through the stories of a place and its people.
November 11, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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My first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 explored how modern urban culture and markets in property, leisure, and labour shaped queer lives and communities between the Great War and the 1950s.

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November 11, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Source:- ‘Life, work and home-stead: A queer portrait of Kristian Zahrtmann’, Rasmus Kjærboe, Perspective Journal, July 2019

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Life, work and home-stead: A queer portrait of Kristian Zahrtmann - Perspective
Around 1900, the Danish painter Kristian Zahrtmann creates a queer persona which cannot be separated from his art. In numerous paintings, he references himself, his dreams, and his home which – at the...
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October 6, 2024 at 1:43 PM
His oeuvre, particularly those works made later in life, can be seen to reflect his attempts to accommodate a queer identity in both his professional and personal life.
October 6, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Born 1843, a number of pieces by Zahrtmann, such as ‘Adam in Paradise’, ‘Loki’ (1912), and ‘Prometheus’ (1906), can be seen as examples where ‘queering’ the subject is both process and action while still remaining indeterminately latent.
October 6, 2024 at 1:41 PM