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The Queering the Collection series of highlights provides a platform to publish various interpretations of works in the collection that disrupt the traditional production of art canons.
Marcus Baron Young is a Doctor of Philosophy student in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University whose research interests are rooted in visual culture and masculinity. For his master’s thesis, he studied the nature of masculinity and its tactile qualities through the nude photographs by George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), American fashion photographer for Vogue and other high-culture magazines. Under the mentorship of Dr Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Bader Curator of European Art, and Dr Jennifer Kennedy, Assistant Professor in Art History and Art Conservation, Young’s doctoral research inquires how critical practices of spectatorship, as methods of engagement, reveal novel meanings for historical artwork, particularly with Young’s focus on Dutch seventeenth-century religious painting
This collection highlight was prepared during a practicum placement supervised by Dr Sebastian De Line, Associate Curator, Care and Relations, in consultation with Dr Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Bader Curator of European Art.
Digital Project Coordinator: Danuta Sierhuis
Copy Editing: Alicia Boutilier, Sebastian De Line and Suzanne van de Meerendonk
Photography: Bernard Clark
Videography: Jay Middaugh
Wordmark Design: Vincent Perez
Motion Graphic: Tara Pelow
Design: Kelsey Blackwell with Jessica Atkinson and Jonathan Gallivan
Funded by the Bader Legacy Fund.
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Re-patterning garments from the Dress Collection at Agnes so that any body can make the clothes, or have the clothes made, for their own body. Local drag artists show us how it can be done.