Philip Gefter: Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe

A Biography. USA 2014, 576 pp. illustrated, hardcover, € 39.95
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W. W. Norton
Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable and largely overlooked influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity ... Weiterlesen

Jean Boullet: Passion et Subversion

F 2013, frz. Text, 315 pp. illustr., hardback, € 79.95
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Éditions Galerie au Bonheur du Jour
Der schwule französische Künstler Jean Boullet (Jahrgang 1921) erinnert mit seinen Zeichnungen stark an Jean Cocteau - zum einen sind seine Zeichnungen weniger abstrahiert als die von Cocteau - zum anderen weist er anders als Cocteau eine Vorliebe fürs Bizarre auf - inspirieren ließ er sich durch die literarischen Werke von Victor Hugo, Dante, Ovid, Shakepeare, Verlaine und Boris Vian. ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Farthing (Hg.): Derek Jarman: Die Skizzenbücher

D 2013, 256 S., 400 Abb., geb., € 49.34
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Deutscher Kunstverlag
Die Filme des schwulen Regisseurs Derek Jarman erheben den ästhetischen Anspruch eines Kunstwerks: Spielfilme wie »Caravaggio«, »Edward II« oder »Sebastiane« inszenieren eine schwule Ästhetik, sie bestechen durch ihre Dramatik und ihre Magie. In etwa 30 Skizzenbüchern hielt Jarman seit den 1970er Jahren mit Zeichnungen die Einfälle für seine Filmsets fest und setzte Dialogfetzen, Textfragmente oder Gedankensplitter daneben. In der Gleichwertigkeit ... Weiterlesen

Katrina Daschner: Nouvelle Burlesque Brutal

Ö 2012, 94 S., Farbe, Broschur, € 20.00
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Fotohof
In ihrem dritten Buch bezieht sich die Bildende Künstlerin Katrina Daschner auf die drei Burlesque-Filme »Hafenperlen«, »Aria de Mustang« und »Flaming Flamingos«, die hier als burlesque Geschichten über Filmstills erzählt werden. Die Künstlerin möchte die Frau, die Sexualität personifiziert, wiederbeleben und begreift die Bühne bzw. den Ausstellungskontext als Umfeld, auf dem sexualisierte Performances, quasi Lustprozesse, stattfinden können. Der Bühnenraum wird ... Weiterlesen

Renate Lorenz: Queer Art

A Freak Theory. D 2012, 180 S., brochure, € 20.40
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transcript - Queer Studies
This is a queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works. »Queer Art« traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. Art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, postcolonial theory, and (dis)ability studies, proposing the three terms »radical drag«, »transtemporal drag«, and »abstract drag«. The ... Weiterlesen

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

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