Masculinity, Scatology, Mooning and the Queer/able Art of Gilbert & George
On the Visual Discourse of Male Ejaculation and Anal Penetration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5035609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cüneyt Çakirlar, Cüneyt Çakırlar (0000-0003-1171-8635, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86-104 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2011.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2044081939 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
The aim of this essay is to investigate the intersections between masculinity, shame, art, anality, the abject and embodiment by focusing on a particular period of the British art duo Gilbert & George's work in the 1990s. In their series The Naked Shit Pictures (1994), The Fundamental Pictures (1996) and The Rudimentary Pictures (1999), the duo's artistic self-performance opens a scatological narrative territory where the male body encounters its own abject fluids strategically magnified. Situating itself within the boundary between queer theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis with a particular focus on the phallus and the abject, this essay argues that Gilbert & George's art-works mentioned above could be regarded as visual commentaries on and queer interventions into bodily anxieties of normative masculinities. It thus reads the artists' visual discourse of performative hypervisibility as a queer/ing one where the conventional male masculinity confronts simultaneously its ejaculatory bliss and its fear of anal penetration
Aesthetics · Art · Human sexuality · Literature · Masculinity · Narrative · Performative utterance · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Shame · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |