Gay Art: A Historic Collectn - Falkon, Felix Lance; Wgh, Thomas: 9781551522050 - AbeBooks

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• GAY ART
• GAY ART: A HISTORIC COLLECTN PAPERBACK – ILLTRATED, 16 DECEMBER 2006
• GAY ART: A HISTORIC COLLECTN - SOFTVER

GAY ART

When patg imag of queer love, sctn, sex, and romance, I strip the gay theme of s taboo nature. It stands for the universal experience of love, but is also the product of a gay artist who refers to the relatnship wh his lover.

The artwork, therefore, tablish an equal view of homosexual and heterosexual relatnships.

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GAY ART: A HISTORIC COLLECTN PAPERBACK – ILLTRATED, 16 DECEMBER 2006

It diverts the heteronormative view a subtle way and mak gay love visible. Silver Wner, ForeWord Magaze Book of the Year Award (Gay/Lbian Non-Fictn)Bronze Wner, Inpennt Publisher Book Award (Bt Eroti)When first published 1972, A Historic Collectn of Gay Art was the first book to document explic exprsns of gay male sexualy the graphic arts, om antiquy to pop culture; s ank and unapologetic survey of the pleasur of the flh was, for gay men, unprecented, and remas the startg-pot for morn-day discsns of erotic gay male artwork and ics. There is also a preface by Earl Kemp, one of the book's origal edors, on the story of s publitn at a time when the celebratn of gay men's sexualy was still a dangero thg.

Gay Art also provis a morn-day discsn about pleasure and permissn: qutns about how we fe erotic imagery, and what we should and should not be allowed to see. Subversive, smart, and sexy, Gay Art tak erotic imag om the past out of the closet and to the light of prent day.

A treasure trove of early gay pornography.

GAY ART: A HISTORIC COLLECTN - SOFTVER

Erotic gay male art is a very big tegory but this revised and updated edn of the btsellg Greenleaf book do a good job.

Gay Art: A Historic Collectn is sential readg for anyone terted gay graphics, gay history, the cultural history of the 1960s and 70s, sex the arts, or pla old hot pictur.... Those glancg at this volume will undoubtedly ntemplate not only how much has changed but also how much has not pictg gay male life.

The book has unqutnable value as a look to the fantasy life of gay men om the 1950s to the 70s. The thors and the prs serve a lot of cred and thanks for puttg together this revised edn of the 1972 llectn of erotic gay male art....

Gay Art is not only fun to look at, but puts the genre of gay art an historil perspective that is well wrten and most rmative. This book is a mt-have for anyone who is serly terted the history of gay art, and even for folks who are jt wantg a general overview of the subject. Kudos to Arsenal Pulp Prs for brgg [Gay Art] back....

For the late 60s/early 70s perspective of the origal thor on art, gay rights and society, Gay Art do serve s subtle, "a historic llectn. "-The Gay Comics List.

- Gay Comics List. Summary of Felix Gonzalez-TorrAs an openly gay man livg through both the AIDS crisis and the extraordary public policizatn of art the 1980s, Felix Gonzalez-Torr's groundbreakg stallatns are famo for their simplicy and affective impact, embeddg poetic medatns on love and loss the mundane material of everyday life. Cube-like stacks of paper, strgs of light, textual agments, and the simple shap of clocks, cellophane ndi, and clouds were imbued wh referenc to current events, cludg gay rights, gun vlence, and the AIDS portra was an important genre for Gonzalez-Torr, one that allowed him to unrme the athetic tonomy of Mimalism.

Although obvly reflects his own homosexual relatnship, the abstract nature of the clocks' substutn for bodi allows to be read generally, as a metaphor for love. Gonzalez-Torr explaed how he risted the label of "gay art" durg a perd of creased censorship and furor over the NEA fundg for Robert Mapplethorpe: "Two clocks si by si are much more threateng to the powers that be than an image of two guys suckg each other's dicks, bee they nnot e me as a rallyg pot their battle to erase meang. It is gog to be very difficult for members of Congrs to tell their nstuents that money is beg expend for the promotn of homosexual art when all they have to show are two plugs si by si, or two mirrors si by si...

Lastly, the "Untled" (Go-Go Dancg Platform) troduc a blatantly homoerotic moment to the space of the mm, where scen of heterosexual sire are typilly domant. For centuri gay artists and gay subjects were supprsed, margalized, or whe-washed, and Gonzalez-Torr was termed to reverse this procs. As the viewer unwraps and eats the ndy, he or she be plic the disappearg procs - ak to the years-long public health crisis of HIV/AIDS, durg which many stigmatized the disease as "gay ncer, " leadg to the failure to aquately support rearch or treatments, and ultimately, to thoands of early aths.

Also, 1989, Gonzalez-Torr erected a billboard Sheridan Square, New York Cy, memoratg the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebelln, the uprisg by members of the LGBTQ muny agast police opprsn nsired a semal event the gay rights movement.