Recentring Peripheral Queerness and Marginal Art in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20248208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Madeleine Pelling (0000-0002-4642-9684, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h10020073 |
| OpenAlex | W3157903899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This essay examines the ways in which Céline Sciamma’s 2019 film Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) looks to centralise onscreen homosexual experience through engagement with, and queering of, eighteenth-century art practices and the discourse surrounding them. From its reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses to ideas espoused by the eighteenth-century art critic and philosopher Denis Diderot, Portrait looks to traditionally peripheral spaces, or edgelands, and the visual and embodied consequences of transcending them. Engaging closely with eighteenth-century processes of artmaking, the film transforms sketches on paper, paint applied to canvas and wood, miniatures held close to the body and erotica annotated in the margins into queer-coded sites used to reflect and document the developing relationship at its heart
Art · Art history · Embodied cognition · Literature · Portrait · Queer · Sociology · Visual arts · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |