Private: Queer Relations and Politics in Duncan Grant's Hidden Erotic Drawings

私人：邓肯·格兰特隐藏的色情画中的酷儿关系和政治

• 批准号: 2635543
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2635543
• 关键词: Private; Queer; Relations; Politics; Duncan

The project will investigate a collection of 422 erotic drawings by Duncan Grant made during the 1940s and 1950s and depicting scenes of multiple sexual encounters between men, interracial couplings, love between men, women and mythic creatures. Originally given to his friends as a 'private' folder, the collection has recently been donated to Charleston which has decided to make it public. Part of the project involves cataloguing and studying the drawings by using collections and archives between Charleston and Sussex. The project will seek to re-evaluate Grant's work and politics against the background of queer visual culture in postwar Britain. The candidate will consider the complexities of interpreting queer representations of sex for diverse audiences today as well as contribute to the organization of an exhibition and a digital publication.Created during the 1940s and 1950s, the drawings were produced in tandem with Grant's public work, but remained hidden creative acts. As a gay man in Britain, Grant spent the first 82 years of his life living as a criminal until 1967 when the Sexual Offences Act was passed. In his 90s Grant attended a Gay Liberation Front meeting with his young, openly gay friends, before he died in 1978. An important part of Grant's collection are the numerous depictions of interracial queer couples which began examination of the relationship between queerness and racialized bodies in erotic art. Some important work to 'decolonise' the history of the Bloomsbury group has already been carried out in the past decade, paving the way for this doctoral project (Romain, 2017; Mercer, 2017; Reed, 2011). The project offers a student the opportunity to make a real contribution to Charleston's growing engagement with BAME and LGBTQI+ histories and communities.This doctoral project builds on the firm partnership base between the Department of Art History, University of Sussex, and Charleston Trust.

该项目将调查邓肯格兰特在20世纪40年代和50年代创作的422幅色情绘画，描绘了男性之间的多次性接触，种族间的耦合，男性，女性和神话生物之间的爱情。该收藏最初作为“私人”文件夹送给他的朋友，最近捐赠给了查尔斯顿，查尔斯顿决定将其公开。该项目的一部分涉及利用查尔斯顿和苏塞克斯之间的收藏和档案对图纸进行编目和研究。该项目将寻求重新评估格兰特的工作和政治背景下的酷儿视觉文化在战后英国。候选人将考虑为当今不同的观众解释性别的酷儿表现的复杂性，并为展览和数字出版物的组织做出贡献。这些绘画创作于20世纪40年代和50年代，与格兰特的公共工作同步制作，但仍然是隐藏的创造性行为。作为英国的一名同性恋男子，格兰特在1967年通过性犯罪法案之前，他生命中的前82年都是罪犯。在他90多岁的时候，格兰特和他年轻的、公开的同性恋朋友一起参加了一个同性恋解放阵线的会议，直到1978年去世。格兰特收藏的一个重要组成部分是跨种族同性恋夫妇的众多作品，这些作品开始研究同性恋和色情艺术中种族化身体之间的关系。在过去的十年中，布卢姆斯伯里集团的历史已经进行了一些重要的工作，为这个博士项目铺平了道路（Romain，2017;美世，2017; Reed，2011）。该项目为学生提供了一个机会，使查尔斯顿与BAME和LGBTQI+历史和社区的日益参与真实的贡献。这个博士项目建立在艺术史系，苏塞克斯大学和查尔斯顿信托之间的坚实伙伴关系基础上。