Series[UMA-SRE-20140045] MAJOR WORKSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004500437Scope and ContentImages of artworks, some unidentified, depicting young men and boys, many dead or dying, some as martyrs. The main content is a sequence of photocopied images with handwritten page numbers 6/2 to 6/23. Artists and sculptors in this sequence include Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Van Dyck, Glyn Philpot, Albrecht Altdorfer, Luca Cambiaso, Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacapo Vignali, Edward Onslow Ford, Francois-Xavier Fabre, Jacques-Louis David. Many images in the folder are copies of images sourced and held in other folders. Images are in formats of black and white and colour photocopies, print outs from web pages, colour plates (cut from catalogues). Some sheets have annotations by GG. The folder contains additional images and research material on the images and artists. The folder also contains laser print of typescript draft, page numbered 75-115, with typescript heading "The Icon of Male Vulnerability", unannotated, 1 page of writing paper with taped on colour plate of "Le Bon Samaritain" interleaved after p.114. Subjects: The Boy; The Beautiful Boy; Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Young men in art; Mythology in art; Religion in art; Death in artAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0045 Unit 0039
Greer, Germaine, The Boy - Male Vulnerability (c.2001-c.2002), [UMA-ITE-2014004500437]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 19/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/344407
