Hide/Seek Exhibition At The Smithsonian, USA

American art historian Cassandra Langer says about the Hide/Seek exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery:

‘Jonathan Katz and David Ward’s show at the National Portrait Gallery is open. Hide and Seek features Romaine Brook’s work and Jonathan Weinberg’s show at the archives also features a lovely Van Vechten photograph of her. Shows run through Feb. [2011] for those of you interested in getting to D.C. before it closes and there is a catalogue available from Amazon at a nice discount. It’s chocked full of good information and fresh interpretations’.

The Editorial Review Of The Catalogue
Amazon.com’s editorial review of the exhibition catalogue reads: ”Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture’, companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, Hide/Seek openly considers what has long been suppressed or tacitly ignored, even by the most progressive sectors of our society: the influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating American modernism. […]
Bringing together for the first time new scholarship in the history of American sexuality and new research in American portraiture, Hide/Seek charts the heretofore hidden impact of gay and lesbian artists on American art and portraiture and creates the basis for the necessary reassessment of the careers of major American artists — both gay and straight — as well as of portraiture itself.’

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (November 2, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1588342999
ISBN-13: 978-1588342997

Related links
The Hide/Seek website
Art historian Cassandra’s Langer’s website about her book project: All or Nothing: The Life and Art of Romaine Brooks – Romainebrooks.com
Romaine Brooks’ bio at Wikipedia