(On art and sexuality, rather than language.)
I start with Jeune Homme Assis au Bord de la Mer (Young Man Sitting by the Seashore) by Jean Hippolyte Flandrin (1836), which has become something of an icon of homoerotic art (though that was probably not Flandrin’s intention):
Discussion on John Coulthart’s blog, here, and my X blog, here (the posting is on my X blog because two images there are “anatomically explicit”).
Now a reader of my X blog has offered another sculpture depicting the Flandrin pose (in addition to the two shown by Coulthart — one by Pierre Yves Trémois and one by an unknown artist):
The work is in the Michael Scott collection of gems at the Bowers Museum (in Santa Ana CA). Günter Petry has a gallery in Hettenrodt, near to Idar-Oberstein (“known as the capital of Germany’s gemstone industry”, according to the Wikipedia entry); both are in the Birkenfeld district of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
May 27, 2011 at 7:07 am |
[…] On Facebook, Rebecca Brown pointed out a Mapplethorpe photograph (from 1976) of Patti Smith in (something close to) the Flandrin pose: […]
August 3, 2011 at 1:43 pm |
Now (8/3/11), Arne Adolfsen tells me that there are cross-stitch patterns for the Flandrin painting, here.
September 14, 2011 at 3:52 pm |
[…] Phallic art. And then recently I got a pointer to John Coulthart’s blog (earlier discussion here), with a posting on pieces by artist Jos Karis, working under the name Josephtailor, in particular […]
November 17, 2011 at 11:10 am |
[…] continuing story of the Flandrin pose (on AZBlogX, here, and on this blog, here), now from Cowboy Fantasy: A Picture Book (“Color and black & white semi-nude and nude […]