{"id":5564,"date":"2010-10-14T07:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2010-10-18T21:57:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T05:57:05","slug":"im-jealous-of-ain-cocke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/im-jealous-of-ain-cocke\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of ain cocke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ain_cocke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5565\" title=\"ain_cocke\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ain_cocke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"3058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ain_cocke.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ain_cocke-44x300.jpg 44w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to begin writing about the beautiful and powerful work of New York based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/aincocke.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ain Cocke<\/a>. Maybe I&#8217;ll let him do it&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/aincocke.com\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Gender theorists and historians have posited that the first half of the  20th century was the end of a period where male intimacy was allowed  without the burden of specific identities like &#8220;homosexual,&#8221; which  imposed restrictions on behavior between men as much as clarified and  codified it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself! I love how he&#8217;s taken these images of soldiers, and blended them with flowery, almost Rococo detailing. If the backgrounds were different, say a manly Navy boat, or a bloody battlefield, homosexuality wouldn&#8217;t even be inferred, but swap those out for lush gardens and some rosy cheeks and<em> <\/em>suddenly the closeness of the men seems sexual. Amazing really. Ah, the power of gold leaf and ceramic flowers!<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>{via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booooooom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Booooooom<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to begin writing about the beautiful and powerful work of New York based artist Ain Cocke. Maybe I&#8217;ll let him do it&#8230; &#8220;Gender theorists and historians have posited that the first half of the 20th century was the end of a period where male intimacy was allowed without the burden of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,3,112,7],"tags":[85,559,560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6252,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/6252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}