Is the Painting a Grave? John Everett Millais and the Queer Refusals of Victorian Art
How is queer eroticism figured in artworks that might also deny it? This article attends to John Everett Millais’s ambivalent proximity to lesbian desire through an analysis of The Vale of Rest (1859) and other works. It concludes that death is the thematic device by which Millais both cultivates an...
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| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2023-03-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
| Online Access: | https://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-24/millais-and-the-queer-refusals-of-victorian-art |