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.
Art and Queer Culture
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.
Outlaw Representation
Outlaw Representation - 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 Outlaw Representation write by Richard Meyer. This book was released on 2002. Outlaw Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Outlaw Representation is a Beacon Press publication.
Outlooks
Outlooks - 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 Outlooks write by Peter Horne. This book was released on 2002-09-09. Outlooks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time as it tackles such burning issues as the advantage of adopting a queer perspective on past art, the responses of lesbian and gay artists to the AIDS crisis, and society's attempts to censor homosexual art. This volume provides a space for lesbian and gay artists to exhibit their work and discuss its relationship to sexuality. It allows for a wide ranging theoretical and historical discussion of the place of lesbian and gay men within visual cultures and shows how much has been missed by a heterosexist approach to art history and the study of culture. Richly illustrated, this book includes statements by contemporary lesbian and gay artists, photographers and performers as well as articles by art historians, cultural theorists and lesbians and gay activists.
Homintern
Homintern - 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 Homintern write by Gregory Woods. This book was released on 2016-05-03. Homintern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called “the Homintern” (an echo of Lenin’s “Comintern”) by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture. Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history.
