{"product_id":"a-touch-of-blossom-john-singer-sargent-and-the-queer-flora-of-fin-de-siecle-art-9780271036229","title":"A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-De-Siècle Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alison Syme\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Touch of Blossom\u003c\/i\u003e considers John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture and argues that the artist mobilized ideas of cross-fertilization and the hermaphroditic sexuality of flowers in his work to \"naturalize\" sexual inversion. In conceiving of his painting as an act of hand-pollination, Sargent was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssembling evidence from diverse realms--visual culture (cartoons, greeting cards, costume design), medicine and botany (treatises and their illustrations), literature, letters, lexicography, and the visual arts--this book situates the metaphors that structure Sargent's paintings in a broad cultural context. It offers in-depth readings of particular paintings and analyzes related projects undertaken by Sargent's friends in the field of painting and in other disciplines, such as gynecology and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891401343127,"sku":"9780271036229","price":12284.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780271036229.webp?v=1781183574","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-touch-of-blossom-john-singer-sargent-and-the-queer-flora-of-fin-de-siecle-art-9780271036229","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}