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Professor
Saslow's teaching interests focus on the Italian Renaissance and
Baroque period, with special interests in gender and sexuality in
art and the visual aspects of the theatre (he also teaches in the
CUNY doctoral program in Theatre). He has taught topics in the
period 1300-1750 such as mythology and art, sexuality and gender,
the city of Florence, and the classical tradition in
architecture. A founding member of the CAA's Queer Caucus for Art
(which he currently co-chairs), he has written about both
historical and contemporary arts addressed to homosexual and
lesbian experience, and organized the 2004 conference at the
Graduate Center on "InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the
Crossroads." His approach involves iconography, social history,
and links between art and literature, which led him to translate
the often homoerotic poetry of Michelangelo. He is currently
working on a study of the 16th-century artist Giovanni Bazzi (Il
Sodoma), and a memoir of gay and lesbian culture.
Books:
Pictures and
Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts.
New York:
Viking-Penguin, 1999, pb. 2001. Award, Lambda Literary
Foundation,
My Wonderful
Adventure: The Art and Life of Stanley Marc Wright, 1911-1996. Stowe,
VT: Wright Estate, 1999.
The Medici
Wedding of 1589: Florentine Festival as "theatrum mundi."
New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1996. Phyllis Gordan Prize,
Renaissance
Society of America.
Editor. Bibliography
of Gay and Lesbian Art. New York: Gay and Lesbian Caucus,
CAA, 1994. Wittenborn Book Award, Special Mention, ARLIS.
Goddess,
Worker, Mother, Symbol: Images of Women in World Art. Exh.
Cat.
New York: Godwin-Ternbach
Museum, Queen's College, 1994.
The Poetry of
Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1991.
Ganymede in
the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1986; also Madrid: Nerea, 1990.
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PhD,
Columbia University, 1983