ABSTRACT
This chapter presents scholarship on art and art history and discusses how men and masculinity have become the subject of research in various forms. It focuses on the feminist critique of the cult of the genius; questions regarding the artist and his (self) portraits; the iconographical investigation into the context of presentation and the staging of the male or female body; questions animated from the biography and sexual orientation of the artist and its meaning for the work; the deployment of theories of the ‘male gaze’; and the role of art in racist and other exclusionary practices.
