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LGBTQ+ art: Books, dissertations and journals

LGBTQ++ art and design of all periods and areas, in all media.

 


Detail of: Man Ray, Rose Selavy (Marcel Duchamp), 1920. Gelatin silver print
(22 x 17 cm). Source: AnOther.

E-books

Remember to search Summon, as well as browsing the shelves.

Many e-books are collected here.

However please also see the e-book guide for:

  • more info about the e-book collections available in Summon
  • links to other e-book collections which need to be searched separately from Summon

 

Books

The key areas of the library are:

  • LGBT sections, e.g. FIA.2.20C.LGBT for twentieth-century LGBTQ++ fine art and FIA6.GB.A.LGBT for LGBTQ++ fine art from Britain
  • GEND sections, for art and gender, are found throughout the book collection
  • for individual artists and makers, see sections such as FIA8 (individual fine artists), FAS8 (individual clothing and fashion designers) and DEC8 (individual designers-in-general and decorative artists).

See also:

  • THE theory, including queer theorists and related thinkers such as Leo Bersani, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Audre Lorde and José Esteban Muñoz.

 

Dissertations

See these guides:

 

Journals

Most journal articles will be found by Summon or one of the other databases shown in the first section of this guide.

However you may wish to browse or search individual journals. The following have little art-specific content, but are often useful background reading:

  • Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality  
  • Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality
  • Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
  • Gay Community News
  • gender forum
  • Gertrude
  • Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review
  • Journal of the History of Sexuality
  • QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
  • Sexuality and Disability
  • Sexuality Research and Social Policy

You can find these using the search box below:

 

 

 

See also:

Independent Voices: LGBT press
Digitised alternative press magazines published in the USA in the second half of the twentieth century.

 

Journals guide
For more info.