Art and Queer Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Queer Culture write by Catherine Lord. This book was released on 2013-04-02. Art and Queer Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Queer Art of Failure
The Queer Art of Failure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Queer Art of Failure write by Jack Halberstam. This book was released on 2011-09-19. The Queer Art of Failure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div
Gay Gotham
Gay Gotham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gay Gotham write by Donald Albrecht. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Gay Gotham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uncovering the lost history of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender artists in New York City. Queer people have always flocked to New York seeking freedom, forging close-knit groups for support and inspiration. Gay Gotham brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would determine much of modern culture. More than 200 images—both works of art, such as paintings and photographs, as well as letters, snapshots, and ephemera—illuminate their personal bonds, scandal-provoking secrets at the time and many largely unknown to the public since. Starting with the bohemian era of the 1910s and 1920s, when the pansy craze drew voyeurs of all types to Greenwich Village and Harlem, the book winds through midcentury Broadway as well as Fire Island as it emerged as a hotbed, turns to the post-Stonewall, decade-long wild party that revolved around clubs like the Mineshaft and Studio 54, and continues all the way through the activist mobilization spurred by the AIDS crisis and the move toward acceptance at the century’s close. Throughout, readers encounter famous figures, from James Baldwin and Mae West to Leonard Bernstein, and discover lesser-known ones, such as Harmony Hammond, Greer Lankton, and Richard Bruce Nugent. Surprising relationships emerge: Andy Warhol and Mercedes de Acosta, Robert Mapplethorpe and Cecil Beaton, George Platt Lynes and Gertrude Stein. By peeling back the overlapping layers of this cultural network that thrived despite its illicitness, this groundbreaking publication reveals a whole new side of the history of New York and celebrates the power of artistic collaboration to transcend oppression.
Cruising the Archive
Cruising the Archive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cruising the Archive write by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. This book was released on 2011. Cruising the Archive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 explores the rich history of queer art, activism and culture in Los Angeles through artworks, documents, and archival items culled entirely from the collections at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the largest LGBTQ archive in the United States. Cruising the Archive includes essays by Ann Cvetkovich, Vaginal Davis, Jennifer Doyle, Judith "Jack" Halberstam, Catherine Lord, Richard Meyer, Ulrike Muller, and Dean Spade that examine various topics related to queer art, aesthetics, politics, and the archive. This publication also includes information on artworks and archival materials from ONE Archives, reprints from early queer publications from Los Angeles including ONE Magazine, an introduction by the exhibition's co-curators David Frantz and Mia Locks, and a map of historical sites referenced in the publication compiled by Zemula Barr. Artist Onya Hogan-Finlay has produced a limited edition poster that functions as a book jacket, featuring a photograph of friends of ONE Archives.
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gay Artists in Modern American Culture write by Michael S. Sherry. This book was released on 2007-09-10. Gay Artists in Modern American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly "American" on the stage and screen. Even though few gay artists were "out," their sexuality caused significant anxiety during a time of rampant antihomosexual attitudes. Michael Sherry offers a sophisticated analysis of the tension between the nation's simultaneous dependence on and fear of the cultural influence of gay artists. Sherry places conspiracy theories about the "homintern" (homosexual international) taking control and debasing American culture within the paranoia of the time that included anticommunism, anti-Semitism, and racism. Gay artists, he argues, helped shape a lyrical, often nationalist version of American modernism that served the nation's ambitions to create a cultural empire and win the Cold War. Their success made them valuable to the country's cultural empire but also exposed them to rising antigay sentiment voiced even at the highest levels of power (for example, by President Richard Nixon). Only late in the twentieth century, Sherry concludes, did suspicion slowly give way to an uneasy accommodation of gay artists' place in American life.
