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Pier Groups - Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront (Hardcover)
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Pier Groups - Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront (Hardcover)
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In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River
became a site for extraordinary works of art and a popular place
for nude sunbathing and anonymous sex. Jonathan Weinberg's
provocative book-part art history, part memoir-weaves interviews,
documentary photographs, literary texts, artworks, and film stills
to show how avant-garde practices competed and mingled with queer
identities along the Manhattan waterfront. Artists as varied as
Vito Acconci, Alvin Baltrop, Shelley Seccombe, and David
Wojnarowicz made work in and about the fire-ravaged structures that
only twenty years before had been at the center of the world's
busiest shipping port. At the same time, the fight for the rights
of gay, lesbian, and transgendered people, spurred by the 1969
Stonewall riots, was dramatically transforming the cultural and
social landscape of New York City. Gay men suddenly felt free to
sunbathe on the piers naked, cruise, and have sex in public. While
artists collaborated to transform the buildings of Pier 34 into
makeshift art studios and exhibition spaces, gay men were
converting Pier 46 into what Delmas Howe calls an "arena for sexual
theater." Featuring one hundred exemplary works from the era and
drawing from a rich variety of source material, interviews, and
Weinberg's personal experience, Pier Groups breaks new ground to
look at the relationship of avant-garde art to resistant
subcultures and radical sexuality.
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