Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Note on Transliteration 7
5. Introduction 9
6. Part One. Theoretical Framings
7. 1. Between Semiotics and Phenomenology: The Problem of Queer Beauty 22
8. Part Two. Queer Beauty in Context
9. 2. “In Appearance, Both a Lad and Lass”: Images of Androgyny in Eighteenth-Century Russian Art 82
10. 3. The Queer Opacity of Alexander Ivanov’s Nudes: Between Biblical Themes and Greek Love 100
11. 4. Prostitutes, Pierrots, and Priapus: The Queer Modernism of Konstantin Somov 114
12. 5. Modernism as the Uncanny of Stalinism: On Alexander Deineka’s Wartime Drawings 148
13. 6. Carnivalesque Carnality: The Queer Potential of Sergei Eisenstein’s Homoerotic Drawings 161
14. 7. Moscow Conceptualism’s Erotic Objects 182
15. 8. Queering Socialist Realism: The Case of Georgy Guryanov 192
16. 9. A Russian Schizorevolution?Observations on the New Academy of Fine Arts and Queer Issues in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s 205
17. 10. The Lure of Implied Transgression as Revolutionary Retrospective: The Illicit as la Belleza in Bella Matveeva’s Art 231
18. 11. Sexual and Gender Dissent in a Bipolar World: Georgy Guryanov and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe 256
19. 12. “My Nationaliti Is My Sexuality”: The Post-Soviet, Migrant, Non-Russian Queerness of Babi Badalov 273
20. Part Three. Beyond Queer Beauty? Contemporary Post-Soviet Perspectives on Queer(ing) Art, Art History, and Artists
21. 13. Architecture, Outer Space, Sex: The Kollontai Commune in 1970s Frunze 288
22. 14. Soviet Union, July 1991 305
23. 15. LGBT Violence and the Limits of Realism: Polina Zaslavskaya’s Material Evidence 316
24. 16. The Battle over Names: Radical Queer on the Russian Activist Art Scene 321
25. 17. Queer in the Land of the Bolsheviks, or the Archeology of Dissent 334
26. 18. A Queer (Re)claiming of Russian and Soviet Art: An Interview 345with Slava Mogutin 345
27. 19. “Queer and Russian Art?” A Conversation between Katharina Wiedlack and Masha Godovannaya 354
28. 20. Queering Sexual Minorities: An Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks 373
29. Index 383