The Construction of the Mediterranean Queer Landscape
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This research aims to address two concepts, liminality and queerness, by analysing the journeys and stays around the Mediterranean by prominent artists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The hypothetical assumption is that the Mediterranean has offered the liminal conditions that have allowed it to become the preferred destination for travellers with a queer sexual orientation. These characters have expressed their sexual interests in their literary, pictorial, photographic, cinematographic, etc. work, thus creating an intimate and personal geography that ended up being embodied in an architecture that served as a refuge and theatre for their double homosexual existence. In them it is possible to appreciate a whole aesthetic that we can call queer, which starts in the architecture and ends in the clothing, and which has been possible to construct thanks to the existence of this liminal Mediterranean.
KEYWORDS: Queer, liminality, Mediterranean, Orientalism, architecture.
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