The First Homosexuals - Jonathan D. Katz, Monacelli Press

A groundbreaking, global survey of&amp,nbsp,queer art, featuring&amp,nbsp,more than 300 artworks made&amp,nbsp,following the introduction of the term ‘homosexual’ in&amp,nbsp,1869An unprecedented and historic new book,&amp,nbsp,The First Homosexuals&amp,nbsp,traces the evolution of the homosexual identity through an archive of&amp,nbsp,more than 300&amp,nbsp,paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and film stills from around the world&amp,nbsp,–&amp,nbsp,many presented in a queer, global, and colonial&amp,nbsp,context for the first time. Accompanying the works are twenty-two original, insightful essays by leading experts in art and queer history, each focusing on one geographical region&amp,nbsp,–&amp,nbsp,from Japan to Australia to the Indigenous populations of&amp,nbsp,South&amp,nbsp,America.&amp,nbsp,Ranging from well-known masterpieces to works by unknown artists and pieces rarely considered in the context of sexuality,&amp,nbsp,The First Homosexuals&amp,nbsp,offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art. The book accompanies a&amp,nbsp,groundbreaking exhibition of the same name&amp,nbsp,presented&amp,nbsp,at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.Featured artists include&amp,nbsp,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent,&amp,nbsp,Félix Vallotton,&amp,nbsp,Harriet Hosmer,&amp,nbsp,Katsushika Hokusai,&amp,nbsp,Kitagawa Utamaro,&amp,nbsp,Frederic Leighton,&amp,nbsp,Simeon Solomon,&amp,nbsp,Giovanni Boldini,&amp,nbsp,Jacques-Émile Blanche,&amp,nbsp,Berenice Abbott,&amp,nbsp,Clare Atwood,&amp,nbsp,Duncan Grant,&amp,nbsp,Laura Rodig,&amp,nbsp,Carl van Vechten,&amp,nbsp,Beauford Delaney,&amp,nbsp,Anna Klumpke,&amp,nbsp,Sarah Bernhardt,&amp,nbsp,Walter Sickert,&amp,nbsp,Florence Carlyle,&amp,nbsp,Florence Wyle&amp,nbsp,,&amp,nbsp,Frances Loring,&amp,nbsp,Ottilie Roederstein,&amp,nbsp,Florine Stettheimer&amp,nbsp,Nasta Rojc,&amp,nbsp,Glyn Philpot,&amp,nbsp,Romaine Brooks,&amp,nbsp,Ismael Nery,&amp,nbsp,Manuel Rodríguez Lozano,&amp,nbsp,Roberto Montenegro,&amp,nbsp,María Izquierdo,&amp,nbsp,Emilio Baz Viaud,&amp,nbsp,Konstantin Somov,&amp,nbsp,Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret,&amp,nbsp,Alice Austen,&amp,nbsp,Emilie Mundt,&amp,nbsp,Bertha Wegmann,&amp,nbsp,Thomas Anshutz,&amp,nbsp,Marsden Hartley,&amp,nbsp,Charles Demuth,&amp,nbsp,Marie Laurencin,&amp,nbsp,Gerda Wegener,&amp,nbsp,Lili Elbe,&amp,nbsp,Gregorio Prieto,&amp,nbsp,Jorge Larco,&amp,nbsp,Pavel Tchelitchew,&amp,nbsp,Andrey Avinoff,&amp,nbsp,Gustave Courtois,&amp,nbsp,Carlos Baca-Flor,&amp,nbsp,Gustave Moreau,&amp,nbsp,Henry Scott Tuke,&amp,nbsp,Sascha Schneider,&amp,nbsp,Ludwig von Hofmann,&amp,nbsp,Max Oppenheimer,&amp,nbsp,Eugene Jansson,&amp,nbsp,Osmar Schindler,&amp,nbsp,George Platt Lynes,&amp,nbsp,Agnes Goodsir,&amp,nbsp,Tamara de Lempicka,&amp,nbsp,Pedro Lira,&amp,nbsp,Wilhelm von Gloeden,&amp,nbsp,Ladislav Mednyánszky,&amp,nbsp,F. Holland Day,&amp,nbsp,Kristian Zahrtmann,&amp,nbsp,Violet Oakley,&amp,nbsp,Rupert Bunny,&amp,nbsp,Saturnino Herrán,&amp,nbsp,David Paynter,&amp,nbsp,Lionel Wendt,&amp,nbsp,Richmond Barthé,&amp,nbsp,Richard Bruce Nugent,&amp,nbsp,Lady Una Troubridge,&amp,nbsp,Jean Cocteau,&amp,nbsp,Léon Bakst,&amp,nbsp,Lumiere Brothers,&amp,nbsp,Marie Höeg &amp,amp, Bolette Berg,&amp,nbsp,José Guadalupe Posada,&amp,nbsp,Claude Cahun,&amp,nbsp,Toyen,&amp,nbsp,Toni Ebel, and&amp,nbsp,Elisar von Kupffer (Elisarion).