The greatest homosexual?: Camp pleasure and the performative body of Larry Rivers

Performing the Body/Performing the Text

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 107-126

  Butt, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203983553-13     Document Type: Chapter

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