Intimate companions : a triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and their circle / David Leddick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leddick, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, American.

Arts, American--20th century.

Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955.

Lynes, George Platt.

Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999.

Cadmus, Paul.

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996.

Kirstein, Lincoln.

Photographers--United States--Biography.

Photographers.

United States.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Gay men--United States--Biography.

Gay men.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

From the late '20s to the early '50s, photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein jointly and separately helped create and define the esthetic and institutions of the American art world of their time. With an overlapping circle of friends, lovers, collaborators, and models, Cadmus, Lynes, and Kirstein created a not-so-underground world of gay esthetics and desire in art that remains remarkable to this day.

Through hours of conversation with surviving members of their circle; unprecedented access to papers, journals, and previously unreleased photos, David Leddick has brought to vivid life the lives and loves, connections and interconnections, and the inspirations and influences of this now vanished art world. Meticulously researched, completely forthright, and lavishly illustrated, Intimate Companions is a revelation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-301) and index.

ISBN:

0312208987

OCLC:

41619560