Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine

Janes

doi:10.1080/14714787.2020.1822755

Queer juxtapositions in the art of Francis Bacon and Lilliput magazine

Janes

Authors

Dominic Janes d.janes@keele.ac.uk

Abstract

Francis Bacon made extensive use of photographs and other images from the visual culture of his time in the production of works that were implicitly queer. Homosexual men were widely represented in prose and through cartoons as camply effeminate ‘pansies’. In the magazine Lilliput, by contrast, photographic spreads produced juxtapositions that evoked a range of responses to same-sex attraction from erotic engagement to nervous rejection. Studying the ways in which this and other magazines engaged with queer culture enables us to reassess the painter’s use of juxtaposed visual forms as acts of sexualised self-expression.

Acceptance Date	Aug 27, 2020
Publication Date	Jan 4, 2021
Journal	Visual Culture in Britain
Print ISSN	1471-4787
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	275-295
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2020.1822755
Keywords	Cartoons, Collage, Homosexuality, Magazines, Photography
Publisher URL	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14714787.2020.1822755