Imagining Masculinities ─ Spatial and Temporal Representation and Visual Culture

This book examines the intersections between debates in critical studies of men and masculinities and debates on visual representation, investigating representations of men and masculinities in contemporary culture and examples of visual art that deconstruct those representations. It attends to various spaces associated with heteronormativity, including the visible domains of working life, leisure and public discourses, as well as less visible domains such as private spaces, lifestyle, desire and sexual agency.

Katarzyna Kosmala is Professor of Culture, Media and Visual Practice at the School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of West of Scotland, Visiting Research Fellow at the European Institute of Gender Studies GEXcel at Linkoping University and Orebro University, Sweden, Visiting Professor at Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, art writer and freelance curator. She researches and writes on aspects of construction and representation of gender and identity politics in contemporary (visual) culture, creative work and cultural labour, on discourses of creativity, identity and community in the context of a globalising network society, art production and enterprise. She also writes regular features about video and new media art and politics of representation. She has published widely in international journals, contributed to several books, art reviews and art catalogues. She currently co-edits two volumes: Sexing the Border (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and Art Inquiry Edition (University of Lodz). She currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.