Publisher's Synopsis
Mark Ward's Masters is an ekphrastic journey across 20 artworks by dead gay male painters. Writing in response to artists as varied as John Singer Sargent, Francis Bacon and Keith Haring, Ward goes in search of a shared gay male history across the past century.Tender and daring, Masters investigates queer relationships, asks questions of painter-model power dynamics, and invites us to look more deeply at the worlds beneath and beyond the brushstrokes.