Dominic Janes d.janes@keele.ac.uk
Early Twentieth-Century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the ‘Freaks of Mayfair’
Janes
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Abstract
Vogue was one of the most influential fashion magazines of the twentieth century. In the 1920s its British edition, launched in 1916, became a focus for various forms of queer visual and cultural expression. The origins of the related ‘amusing style’, which delighted in camp display, can be traced to the romantic and artistic collaboration between the American artist George Wolfe Plank and the British writer E.F. Benson during the First World War. The illustrations that Plank produced for Benson’s book of satirical sketches of life in London’s high society, The Freaks of Mayfair (1916), shed light on the camp images that Plank designed for the covers of both the American and British editions of the magazine. Therefore, Plank can be understood to have played a key role in the development of queer visual culture during the early twentieth century.
Citation
Janes. (2017). Early Twentieth-Century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the ‘Freaks of Mayfair’. Visual Culture in Britain, 68-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2017.1317017
Acceptance Date | Jan 18, 2017 |
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Publication Date | Apr 27, 2017 |
Journal | Visual Culture in Britain |
Print ISSN | 1471-4787 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 68-83 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2017.1317017 |
Keywords | E.F. Benson, camp, fashion, George Wolfe Plank, magazines, queer, Vogue |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2017.1317017 |
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