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  • Gerda Wegener, Lili med fjerkost (Lili with a Feather Duster), 1920, oil on canvas, 31 1/8 × 23 1/4". From “Moral Dis/Order: Art and Sexuality in Europe Between the Wars.”

    Gerda Wegener, Lili med fjerkost (Lili with a Feather Duster), 1920, oil on canvas, 31 1/8 × 23 1/4". From “Moral Dis/Order: Art and Sexuality in Europe Between the Wars.”

    “Moral Dis/Order”

    Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM)

    “Moral Dis/Order: Art and Sexuality in Europe Between the Wars” maneuvers with confidence and authority through a problematic and potentially swampy terrain: the correlate that the new sexual isms, defined and classified in Europe from the end of the nineteenth century onward, found in the artistic isms during the golden age of the European avant-gardes in France, Germany, England, and Spain between the two World Wars.

    Curator Juan Vicente Aliaga has based this ambitious survey on his decades of pioneering scholarly work on queer and gender studies both in Spain and abroad and on his curatorial

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