How long does it take to read Pictures and Passions?
A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts
James M. Saslow
Pictures and Passions by James M. Saslow takes about 6 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 342 pages, about 94,050 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Pictures and Passions is a sweeping panorama of art by, for, or about gays and lesbians across the world and across time, from Europe and North America to China and Australia, from the Stone Age to the Stonewall riot and beyond. This book breaks down the walls of prejudice and silence that have long imprisoned a visual heritage rich in beauty, passion, and humor.Through prehistoric and classical times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Stonewall, and today, James M. Saslow explores the flowering of lesbian and gay art and experience. Included here are non-Western cultures (Asia and Islam), hostile as well as positive images, traditional media such as painting and sculpture, and modern commercial and mass media such as magazines and photography.
Subjects: Homosexuality in art, Beeldende kunsten, Lesbiennes, Homoseksuelen, Geschichte, Homosexualité dans l'art
