Art and Queer Culture

Art and Queer Culture
Title Art and Queer Culture PDF eBook
Author Catherine Lord
Publisher Phaidon Press
Pages 412
Release 2013-04-02
Genre Art
ISBN 9780714849355

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The Queer Art of Failure

The Queer Art of Failure
Title The Queer Art of Failure PDF eBook
Author Jack Halberstam
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 234
Release 2011-09-19
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0822350459

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DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div

Gay Gotham

Gay Gotham
Title Gay Gotham PDF eBook
Author Donald Albrecht
Publisher Rizzoli Publications
Pages 0
Release 2016-10-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0847849406

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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
Title Cruising the Archive PDF eBook
Author ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
Publisher
Pages 208
Release 2011
Genre Gay artists
ISBN 9780615497242

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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.

Queer X Design

Queer X Design
Title Queer X Design PDF eBook
Author Andy Campbell
Publisher Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages 375
Release 2019-05-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0762467916

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The first-ever illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols, and graphic art representing more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and activism. Beginning with pre-liberation and the years before the Stonewall uprising, spanning across the 1970s and 1980s and through to the new millennium, Queer X Design celebrates the inventive and subversive designs that have powered the resilient and ever-evolving LGBTQ movement. The diversity and inclusivity of these pages is as inspiring as it is important, both in terms of the objects represented as well as in the array of creators; from buttons worn to protest Anita Bryant, to the original 'The Future is Female' and 'Lavender Menace' t-shirt; from the logos of Pleasure Chest and GLAAD, to the poster for Cheryl Dunye's queer classic The Watermelon Woman; from Gilbert Baker's iconic rainbow flag, to the quite laments of the AIDS quilt and the impassioned rage conveyed in ACT-UP and Gran Fury ephemera. More than just an accessible history book, Queer X Design tells the story of queerness as something intangible, uplifting, and indestructible. Found among these pages is sorrow, loss, and struggle; an affective selection that queer designers and artists harnessed to bring about political and societal change. But here is also: joy, hope, love, and the enduring fight for free expression and representation. Queer X Design is the potent, inspiring, and colorful visual history of activism and pride.

Sex, Needs and Queer Culture

Sex, Needs and Queer Culture
Title Sex, Needs and Queer Culture PDF eBook
Author Doctor David Alderson
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 325
Release 2016-04-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1783605146

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The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized - as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events - while the initial radicalism of sexual liberation has given way to relatively conservative goals over marriage and adoption rights. Meanwhile, queer theory has critiqued this 'homonormativity', or assimilation, as if some act of betrayal had occurred. In Sex, Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson seeks to account for these shifts in both queer movements and the wider society, and argues powerfully for a distinctive theoretical framework. Through a critical reassessment of the work of Herbert Marcuse, as well as the cultural theorists Raymond Williams and Alan Sinfield, Alderson asks whether capitalism is progressive for queers, evaluates the distinctive radicalism of the counterculture as it has mutated into queer, and distinguishes between avant-garde protest and subcultural development. In doing so, the book offers new directions for thinking about sexuality and its relations to the broader project of human liberation.

Gay Artists in Modern American Culture

Gay Artists in Modern American Culture
Title Gay Artists in Modern American Culture PDF eBook
Author Michael S. Sherry
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 303
Release 2007-09-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0807885894

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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.