Oscar Wilde: The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

USA 2011, 260 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Belknap Harvard
»The Picture of Dorian Gray« altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had a different look. Yet the »Dorian Gray« that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as »vulgar«, »unclean«, »poisonous«, »discreditable«, and »a sham«. Now, more ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Simon Sykes: David Hockney - A Rake's Progress

The Biography, 1937-1975. UK 2011, 364 pp. with numerous b/w + colour photographs, hardbound, € 29.95
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Doubleday
Drawing on unprecedented access to Hockney's extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, as well as on interviews with family, friends, and Hockney himself, the biographer provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Born in 1937, Hockney grew up in a Northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. By the ... Weiterlesen

Martin Gayford: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

UK 2011, 248 pp. with numerous b/w + color illustrations, hardbound, € 23.90
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Thames and Hudson
David Hockney is described as the world's most popular living painter. His exuberant work is widely loved, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does ... Weiterlesen

Lisa L. Moore: Sister Arts

The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes. USA 2011, 244 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.95
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University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
In the great age of English garden design, 18th-century women working in the »sister arts« of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Graham-Dixon: Caravaggio

A Life Sacred and Profane. UK 2011, 514 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 15.60
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For centuries Caravaggio's staggering artistic achievements have thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory - the murder of Ranuccio Tomasini, the doubt surrounding Caravaggio's sexuality, the chain of events that began with his imprisonment on Malta and ended with his premature death - has long confounded historians. In a bravura performance, the biographer delves into the original Italian sources, presenting ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Reed: Art and Homosexuality

A History of Ideas. UK 2011, 285 pp., with numerous b/w and colour illustrations, hardbound, € 69.95
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Oxford University Press
This globe-spanning survey explores the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Fischbacher: Des Königs Knabe

Friedrich der Große und Antinous. D 2011, 208 S. mit Abb., Broschur, € 20.35
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Antinous war der Geliebte des römischen Kaisers Hadrian. Nach dem frühen, mysteriösen Tod des bithynischen Jünglings im Nil machte ihn der Kaiser zum Gott. Aus der Antike sind so einige Plastiken erhalten geblieben. Eine Bronzestatue des »Antinous« fand Eingang in die Antikensammlung des preußischen Königs Friedrichs II. und wurde zu ihrem Aushängeschild. Die Bronze - die ja eine Reflexion eines ... Weiterlesen

Sigrid Hutter: 100 Frauen

Ö 2011, 107 S., Farbe, geb., € 37.00
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Eine Leidenschaft der Vorarlberger Künstlerin Sigrid Hutter sind Biografien von Lesben. In ihren Bildern - und seien es nur Porträts von berühmten Lesben wie Gertrude Stein, Patricia Highsmith, Erika Mann, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Virginia Woolf, Marla Glen - spürt sie dem Leben lesbischer Frauen nach, versucht die Erinnerung wachzuhalten. Mal erfasst sie mit dem Pinsel eine engelhafte Schönheit oder zeitlose Androgynität ... Weiterlesen

Dyfri Williams: The Warren Cup

UK 2006m 46pp., brochure, € 14.95
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The Warren Cup is a remarkably important masterpiece of gay Roman art, created in the first century AD showing men in sexual intercourse. This book examines the history, both ancient and modern, that the Warren Cup has to tell. It also attempts to set the cup in its ancient contexts - where and when it was made; where and when ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Dancing Ledge

USA 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Minnesota Press
From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in both his films and writing. Accompanied by nearly one hundred photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in »Dancing Ledge« provide intimate and incredibly vivid glimpses ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Kicking the Pricks

USA 2010, 251 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 16.95
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University of Minnesota Press
The provocative title of the 4th volume of Jarman's journals suggests a look back in anger and defiance of the conventional. It is, but it is also rich in wit, intellect, and a clearly articulated aesthetic. Written while editing his film »The Last of England« and originally entitled that in Britain, this 1st American edition goes by the uncompromising title ... Weiterlesen

Whitney Davis: Queer Beauty

Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond. USA 2010, 354pp. with numerous b/w photographs, hardbound, € 48.95
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The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or duelling domains. ... Weiterlesen

Tony Scherman, David Dalton: Andy Warhol

His Controversial Life, Art and Colourful Times. USA 2010, 441pp. with numerous b/w photographs, hardbound, € 29.80
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To his critics he was the cynical magus of a movement that debased high art and reduced it to a commodity. To his admirers, he was the most important artist since Picasso. Indisputably, Andy Warhol defined what art could be. As the quintessential Pop artist, he destroyed the barrier between high and low culture, taking as his subject matter comic ... Weiterlesen

Gary Indiana: Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World

USA 2010, 175pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles - and sent the art world reeling. The response ran from incredulity to outrage. The poet Taylor Mead described the exhibition as »a brilliant slap in the face of America«. That exhibition put Warhol on the map ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Graham-Dixon: Caravaggio

A life Sacred and Profane. UK/USA/CAN 2010, 514pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 39.95
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The patrons of the church competed to have the leading artists jostled for their favour. In a fight Caravaggio, a particularly violent man, killed Ranuccio Tomassoni, a pimp, and fled afterwards to Naples and then Malta, where he escaped from prison following his ... Weiterlesen

John Wilcock: The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol

USA 2010, 256pp., illustrated, hardbound, € 39.95
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Even with the staggering volume of articles, books, movies, and consumer products dealing with all things Warhol, there still remains an interest in his life and artistic career. This book - contradicting the title - is neither an autobiography nor a sex exposé, but was the very 1st oral biography of the artist. In addition to capturing what the artist ... Weiterlesen

Dieter Buchhart (Hg.): Basquiat

D 2010, 244 S. mit farbigen Abb., geb., € 51.19
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Der Maler und Zeichner Jean-Michel Basquiat gehört zu den schillerndsten Persönlichkeiten der jüngeren Kunstgeschichte. Um Geld zu verdienen, verkaufte der aus dem New Yorker Underground stammende Autodidakt in Downtown Manhattan zunächst bemalte T-Shirts und xerografierte Collagen als Postkarten. Bekanntheit erlangte Basquiat durch Graffitis. Seine Freundschaften mit Andy Warhol, Keith Haring und Madonna gelten inzwischen als legendär. Zum 50. Geburtstag vereint ... Weiterlesen

Mels van Driel: Manhood

The Rise and Fall of the Penis. UK 2009, 288 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 34.95
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The ancient Greeks paraded enormous sculptural replicas in annual celebration of the penis. Freud theorized that women suffered penis envy. An undeniable global symbol of power and virility since the beginning of humankind, the penis has been much discussed and depicted, yet its place in folklore and popular culture past and present remains an uneasy mix of deprecation and aggrandizement. ... Weiterlesen