{"product_id":"a-touch-of-blossom-john-singer-sargent-and-the-queer-flora-of-fin-de-sicle-art-0271036222","title":"A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Sicle Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0271036222\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Syme, Alison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Touch of Blossom 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.Assembling 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 Sargents paintings in a broad cultural context. It offers in-depth readings of particular paintings and analyzes related projects undertaken by Sargents friends in the field of painting and in other disciplines, such as gynecology and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786138485024,"sku":"NEW0271036222","price":124.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/919PWkPArwL.jpg?v=1780628352","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-touch-of-blossom-john-singer-sargent-and-the-queer-flora-of-fin-de-sicle-art-0271036222","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}