ABSTRACT
Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures makes an impressive contribution to the field of gender studies, giving a fascinating insight into the strategies which artists and critics utilize to inscribe lesbian/gay desire in the production and reception of art. The collection is divided into three sections: ‘Queering art history’, ‘Practitioners’ statements’ and ‘Production and consumption’. Taken together, the essays are notably comprehensive, encompassing in their scope both high art and popular culture, the art forms of the past as well as those of the present. The editors succeed, on the whole, in avoiding the danger of fragmentation and superficiality to which such a wide-ranging collection of essays can give rise, since certain themes and motifs which recur throughout the volume give it intellectual coherence and a degree of unity.
