..., make it a potential medium. As a surface, its materiality—a continuous Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), The Duchess of Alba, 1797 (A102). Oil on canvas, 210.2 x 149.2 cm. cohesive system and a ruptured field—encompass...

...” by blackness or homosexuality? Inevitably, choosing the Duchess of Queensbury, Soubise was theatrical which of the two is “the queerest of all” is pointless and spectacular, and he complicated perceptions and even dishonest. As Robert Reid-Pharr reminds of black masculinity, sexuality, and Englishness...

... that championed creativity, Guinesses, dukes and duchesses, and princes and expression, and freedom. princesses from far and near. They entered the At Versailles the Americans felt outnumbered gilded palace gates and passed the troops of Gardes and outgunned. Marie-Helene had...

... another Hottentot woman, descendants. The language of the Khoisan peoples also billed as “Venus,” was exhibited nude in Paris (“Hottentot” and “bushman”) consists of a range of 8 at a ball given by the Duchess du Barry...

... Peter Lely, Elizabeth Murray, Lady Tollemache, later Countess of Dysart and Duchess of Lauderdale, with a Black Servant, ca. 1651. Courtesy National Trust Photo Library/Art Resource, New York. Photo: John Hammond, Ham House, Richmond-upon-Thames, UK Buck-Morss Nka 31 of knowledge, facts matter...