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Between You and Me - Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963 (Hardcover, New)
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Between You and Me - Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963 (Hardcover, New)
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In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots-in the wake of the
1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey's controversial report on male
sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and
paranoia-discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world
necessarily circulated via gossip and rumor. Between You and Me
explores this informal, everyday talk and how it shaped artists'
lives, their work, and its reception. Revealing the "trivial" and
"unserious" aspects of the postwar art scene as key to
understanding queer subjectivity, Gavin Butt argues for a richer,
more expansive concept of historical evidence, one that supplements
the verifiable facts of traditional historical narrative with the
gossipy fictions of sexual curiosity.Focusing on the period from
1948 to 1963, Butt draws on the accusations and denials of
homosexuality that appeared in the popular press, on early
homophile publications such as One and the Mattachine Review, and
on biographies, autobiographies, and interviews. In a stunning
exposition of Larry Rivers's work, he shows how Rivers incorporated
gossip into his paintings, just as his friend and lover Frank
O'Hara worked it into his poetry. He describes how the stories
about Andy Warhol being too "swish" to be taken seriously as an
artist changed following his breakthrough success, reconstructing
him as an asexual dandy. Butt also speculates on the meanings
surrounding a MoMA curator's refusal in 1958 to buy Jasper Johns's
Target with Plaster Casts on the grounds that it was too scandalous
for the museum to acquire. Between You and Me sheds new light on a
pivotal moment in American cultural production as it signals new
directions for art history.
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