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Gay Gotham : art and underground culture in New York / Donald Albrecht with Stephen Vider.
LIBRA NX652.G38 A43 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albrecht, Donald, author.
- Vider, Stephen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay culture--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.
- Gay culture.
- Gay artists--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.
- Gay artists.
- Trans artists--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.
- Trans artists.
- Homosexuality in art--Exhibitions.
- Homosexuality in art.
- Trans people in art--Exhibitions.
- Trans people in art.
- Transgender people in art.
- Transgender artists.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli Publications Inc., 2016.
- Summary:
- This book brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up in New York over the last hundred years. A creative class whose radical ideas would determine much of modern culture. More than 200 images 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. By peeling back the overlapping layers of this cultural network that thrived despite its illicitness, this publication reveals a whole new side of the history of New York and celebrates the power of artistic collaboration to transcend oppression.00Exhibition: Museum of the City of New York, USA (07.10.16 - 26.02.2017).
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at The Museum of the City of New York, October 7, 2016-February 26, 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847849406
- 9780847849406
- OCLC:
- 940933250
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