Male Bodies Unmade

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in Art History and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868–1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities.

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

PART I: ME
1. Jean Cocteau: I Am Not One 
2. David Hockney: The Missing Body Is in the Pool 

PART II: NOT ME
3. Aubrey Beardsley: The Male Body Is Absurd 
4. Francis Bacon: The Flesh Marks Limits of Knowing 

PART III: ME . . . BITS
5. Robert Gober: Beeswax Time Machines Will Melt 
Conclusion 

Postscript (or the Hanging-On with a Safety Pin): Andrew Ahn—A
K-Town Bathhouse Boy Is Me/Not Me 

Notes 
Bibliography 
List of Illustrations 
Index