Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in Art History and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868–1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities. Bruce Hainley is the author of Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face, No Biggie, and Foul Mouth, among other books. He assembled and edited Gary Indiana’s Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns 1985-1988 as well as Commie Pinko Guy, a publication that accompanied the first European survey of the work of Larry Johnson at Raven Row. A contributing editor of Artforum, he co-wrote with John Waters Art—A Sex Book.
Male Bodies Unmade explores white men’s disunified physicality in modern and contemporary art while attending to erotic polysemy that questions the visual ethos of Occidental patriarchy. Art historian Jongwoo Jeremy Kim’s approach is informed by his own status as an immigrant—a polyglot queen, drawn to extravagant fantasies of misbehaving bodies that are in truth foreign territories, colonies of misbelief. In six case studies focusing on configurations of irrational anatomy and horny self-extinction, this book celebrates the lessons and pleasures of disrupting art history’s hegemonically Western narratives.

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