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Fire Island art : 100 Years / edited by John Dempsey.
Fine Arts Library - New Book Display N6530.N7 F574 2026
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--New York (State)--Fire Island (Island).
- Artists.
- Art--New York (State)--Fire Island (Island).
- Art.
- Sexual minorities--New York (State)--Fire Island (Island)--Art.
- Sexual minorities.
- Sexual minority culture--New York (State)--Fire Island (Island)--History.
- Sexual minority culture.
- Gay culture--New York (State)--Fire Island (Island).
- Gay culture.
- Fire Island (N.Y. : Island)--Art.
- Fire Island (N.Y. : Island).
- Fire Island (N.Y. : Island)--History.
- Art, American--20th century.
- Art, American.
- Art, American--21st century.
- Fire Island Pines Historical Society.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Art
- History
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- illustration
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monacelli Press, 2026.
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- "For nearly one hundred years, Fire Island has served as a haven for queer individuals from around the world. Ninety minutes away from New York City, the slender barrier island has been a source of creative innovation for its residents and visitors, which include some of the most influential artists of the past century. This book - the first of its kind - presents an art history of Fire Island, surveying the rich tapestry of visual artworks in all mediums created there since the 1930s. The story is told in fifteen chapters, each written by a leading art writer and centering on a group of friends and collaborators who drew inspiration from one another and the unique setting of the island at each juncture in its history." -- publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Introduction : nothing but a sandbar, as slim as a parenthesis / John Dempsey
- A little queer : PaJaMa in the 1930s and '40s / Richard Meyer
- George Daniell : the islander / Carl Little
- Cherry Grove : the temptations of Richard Avedon / Philip Gefter
- The big clarity thing : Peter Hujar and Paul Thek in Oakleyville / Andrew Durbin
- Elegy for Frank O'Hara / Jack Parlett
- A true account of talking to the sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara
- Apollo and Dionysus at the beach : Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe / Philip Gefter
- Artists on the boardwalk of life : David Hockney and Larry Stanton / Fabio Cherstich
- Andy Warhol's Fire Island diaries : excerpts from The Andy Warhol diaries
- Fire Island : the local artist / Marc R. Christensen
- Double exposure : a queer cinematic history of Fire Island / Sam Ashby
- Why have there been no great lesbian artists in Cherry Grove? / Ksenia M. Soboleva
- Lola Flash and Pamela Sneed in conversation
- The rebirth of Fire Island / AA Bronson
- Fire Island's art renaissance, 2010 to present / Michael Bullock
- Interview with Wolfgang Tillmans
- Afterword : stars / Jarrett Earnest.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781580936712
- 1580936717
- OCLC:
- 1581153892
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000384332
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