Corps dessinés, corps créés, signés « Tom of Finland »
The Finnish erotic artist Tom of Finland was instrumental in the masculinization of homosexuality in the latter half of the twentieth century. Targeting the image of the effeminate homosexual, the central strategy behind Tom’s project of masculinization was the depiction of the male body. In drawing...
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2009-05-01
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| description | The Finnish erotic artist Tom of Finland was instrumental in the masculinization of homosexuality in the latter half of the twentieth century. Targeting the image of the effeminate homosexual, the central strategy behind Tom’s project of masculinization was the depiction of the male body. In drawing pictures of gay men with muscular bodies, he created an image of masculinity which had always been denied to homosexuals. From the 1960s onwards, his popularity gave him enormous influence in the creation of a masculine gay identity. The higher visibility of gay men, well built and in macho attire, meant that his influence even stretched subversively beyond the world of gay men. Is the straight world not now disconcerted that having a good body is no longer the unique privilege of heterosexual men? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e0885b54bbd949b7824f09740aad122e2022-12-21T23:28:01ZfraPléiade (EA 7338)Itinéraires2427-920X2009-05-012009110812810.4000/itineraires.364Corps dessinés, corps créés, signés « Tom of Finland »Guy SnaithThe Finnish erotic artist Tom of Finland was instrumental in the masculinization of homosexuality in the latter half of the twentieth century. Targeting the image of the effeminate homosexual, the central strategy behind Tom’s project of masculinization was the depiction of the male body. In drawing pictures of gay men with muscular bodies, he created an image of masculinity which had always been denied to homosexuals. From the 1960s onwards, his popularity gave him enormous influence in the creation of a masculine gay identity. The higher visibility of gay men, well built and in macho attire, meant that his influence even stretched subversively beyond the world of gay men. Is the straight world not now disconcerted that having a good body is no longer the unique privilege of heterosexual men?http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/364homosexualitymasculinitymuscularitystrereotypeTom of Finland |
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