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Drawing for The Thief's Journal, Jean Genet: The Portraits
- Author
- Murray, James
- Title
- Drawing for The Thief's Journal, Jean Genet: The Portraits
- Format
- Image
- Published
- c2007.
- Description
- 1 artwork: graphite on paper; 51 x 29 in. in a white wood frame.
- Notes
- Included in The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show, 2012.
- Summary
- Title is three lines of text in black letters on white paper. This drawing is part of an ongoing series of drawings that look to take the works of homosexual authors and reconstruct them through contemporary communication practices prevalent in online BDSM communities. By employing "BDSM shorthand", updated "Handkerchief Code" and the largely outdated "Bear Code" as a starting point, this series of drawings function as "translations" for Jean Genet's seminal queer text, "The Thief's Journal". These drawings explore ideas relating to how desire is constructed through language in contemporary queer culture by using the works of, and thus in contrast to, the works of authors like Genet and others. To search for what is lost and what is found in these translations and to create a new understanding of how queer desire is expressed today.
- Kinsey subjects
- Drawing. Literature in art.