"Hide/Seek" 2012 Scholarly Symposium: Christopher Reed - National Portrait Gallery
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Christopher Reed, presenting his paper " Imagining Identity: Sexuality, Regionalism, and Legacy in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Art" on January 29, 2011 at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. His presentation was part of the scholarly symposium "Addressing (and Redressing) the Silence: New Scholarship in Sexuality and American Art" which presented papers from 11 scholars in the fields of art, art history, performance art, and social history. This symposium was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture." Christopher Reed teaches English and visual culture at Penn State University. He is author of the forthcoming Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas and co-author of the forthcoming If Memory Serves: Imagining Gay Pasts After AIDS..
