The sex of all human males is determinate by the x and y chromosome, yet what does it mean to be a man? This exhibition delves into the complexities of male identity, masculinity and maleness across varied historical, cultural and temporal trajectories.
xy approaches these issues through visual essays that are grouped into four categories: revealing the male body; performing masculinity; (de)constructing male identity; and man enough: muscles vs. emotion.
Drawing on the rich collection of the Spencer Museum, the exhibition explores the male body as a site of social agency through which norms of social conduct, and rebellion against normativity, are constructed, performed and contested. The exhibition will be on view from June 27 to October 5, 2009 at Spencer Museum Of Art, Kansas.
By pondering the socio-cultural dimensions of male identity, whether through representations of male space, the body, or idealized archetypes, the exhibition questions the modes and methods of male behavior as realized and represented visually by artists. -- www.spencerart.ku.edu
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