Queer Making

“This provocative and pioneering book sets out to explore the capacity of artistic making to engender queer experiences and desires. While to date scholarship on queerness in medieval art has mainly been taken up with issues of identity and iconography, Whittington shifts our attention to materials and techniques, seeing these as being themselves sites of physical intimacy, desire, and (homo)eroticism.” —Robert Mills, author of Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages “In this speculative, creative, and evocative work, Whittington brings together queer studies and materiality studies to explore the feelings of desire a maker may have experienced while creating material things. By vividly imagining scenarios of creation that put artists into close contact with their materials and the bodies they formed, Whittington creates a vivid picture of medieval artists as human beings who had physical and emotional intimacy with their creations.” —“This provocative and pioneering book sets out to explore the capacity of artistic making to engender queer experiences and desires. While to date scholarship on queerness in medieval art has mainly been taken up with issues of identity and iconography, Whittington shifts our attention to materials and techniques, seeing these as being themselves sites of physical intimacy, desire, and (homo)eroticism.” —Robert Mills, author of Seeing Sodomy in the Middle AgesNancy Thompson, coauthor of Medieval Art 250–1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning