Ian Jenkins, Victoria Turner: The Greek Body

UK 2009, 144 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 26.80
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To the ancient Greeks the human body in sculpture was both an object of sensory delight and an expression of an intelligent mind. From the abstract simplicity of prehistoric Cycladic figurines to later realism, sculptors gave form to thought in a rich harvest of artworks that have had a profound influence upon western visual culture. Through photographs and close-up views, ... Weiterlesen

Desmond Morris: The Naked Man

A Study of the Male Body. UK 2009, 280 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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After »The Naked Woman«, the author investigates an evolutionary success story - not without raising some dispute about this book. The masculine body is studied from head to toe - examining biological features of the male anatomy in illuminating detail and describing the many ways in which these features have been modified, suppressed, or exaggerated by local customs and changes ... Weiterlesen

Joy Melville: Diaghilev and Friends

UK 2009, 290 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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At the beginning of the 20th century Sergei Diaghilev stormed Paris with an operatic production that sounded the trumpets of the coming of the Russian artistic avantgarde. Not much later he created the magical and now legendary »Ballets Russes«. In Paris and London Diaghilev drew together a talented group of like-minded artists such as Picasso, Bakst and Fokine, the dancers ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Lear, Eva Cantarella : Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty

Boys Were Their Gods. UK/USA 2009, 262 pp., brochure, € 89.00
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Taylor and Francis
Greek pederasty, or »paiderastia« - the social custom of erotic relations between adult men and adolescent boys - was a central characteristic of Greek culture. Both Greeks and non-Greeks saw it, along with the gymnasium with its intimate connection to pederasty, as markers of Greek identity. It is an important theme in Greek literature, from poetry to comedy to philosophy, ... Weiterlesen

Desmond Morris: The Naked Man

A Study of the Male Body. USA 2009, 280 pp., hardbound, € 23.49
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After »The Naked Woman«, the author investigates an evolutionary success story - not without raising some dispute about this book. The masculine body is studied from head to toe - examining biological features of the male anatomy in illuminating detail and describing the many ways in which these features have been modified, suppressed, or exaggerated by local customs and changes ... Weiterlesen

Jean Boullet: Sous l'aile du désir

Dessins, peintures, livres. F 2008, frz./engl. Text, 113 pp., illustrated, brochure, € 59.95
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Éditions Galerie au Bonheur du Jour
Dieser Bildband aus den Éditions Galerie au Bonheur du Jour widmet sich den Entwürfen, Zeichnungen und Buchgestaltungen durch den schwulen französischen Küntler Jean Boullet (1921 - 1970). Sein ?uvre ist geprägt von einer durchweg schwulen Ästhetik - mit seinen Zeichnungen steht er Jean Cocteau sehr nahe. Eigen ist ihm auch eine gewisse Faszination für das Bizarre.

Samuel M. Steward: Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos

A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks. USA/UK 2008, 204 pp., brochure, € 64.95
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Routledge
Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos! In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English - a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder - abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). »Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos« tells ... Weiterlesen

Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

UK 2007, 242 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Penguin UK
In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol - which, with the subtitle »(From A to B and Back Again),« is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections - he talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, and success; about New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; about his good times and bad in New ... Weiterlesen

Pierre et Gilles: Double Je 1976 - 2007

D 2007, 460 S., geb., € 0.00
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Eine schwule Kunst ohne Pierre et Gilles ist schlechtdings heute nicht mehr vorstellbar. Ihr (zugegeben eigenwilliger) Einfluss auf das Schaffen zeitgenössicher Künstler ist immer wieder festzustellen. Sie haben den Kitsch hoffähig gemacht. Ihnen ist nichts heilig. Und diese Frechheit im Umgang mit allerlei Materien macht ihr Werk so spannend (und auch für andere fruchtbar). Heute im Jahr 2007 können die ... Weiterlesen Dieser Titel ist leider vergriffen, auf Anfrage versuchen wir gern, ihn antiquarisch zu besorgen.

Pierre et Gilles: Sailors and Sea

D 2005, 192 S., Farbe, geb., € 14.95
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Taschen Verlag
Süßer als eine Zuckerwatte, verführerischer als Pralinen und bunter als so manches Bonbon: Willkommen zum Farbenfest der schwulen Ikonografie zwischen Kunst und Kitsch. Jeder, der die Banalität des Alltags vergessen will, hat nun die Möglichkeit seine persönliche kleine Flucht im handlichen Format immer im Gepäck zu haben: »Sailors and Sea« von Pierre et Gilles - voller lasziver Matrosen, mystisch verklärter ... Weiterlesen
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Anthony Gayton: Sinners & Saints

D 2005, 160 S., geb., € 89.95
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teNeues
»Fotografie ist Diebstahl «, sagt Anthony Gayton an einer Stelle im Vorwort seines Bildbandes, in dem er darauf verweist, wie seine Leidenschaft für die Männerfotografie bereits in jungen Jahren entstanden ist: der Voyeurismus, den der Anblick eines schönen, halbnackten Handwerkerlehrlings bei der Arbeit im Nachbargarten bei ihm ausgelöst hatte und der darin gipfelte, dass der junge Möchtegernfotograf ein heimliches Foto von seinem ahnungslosen Objekt der Begierde nach dem anderen geschossen hat. Es war klar, dass hinter diesen ... Weiterlesen

Francine Prose: Caravaggio - Painter of Miracles

USA 2010, 149 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed - street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged - was a profound and revolutionary innovation that lefts its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Weinberg: Male Desire

USA 2005, 208 pp., hardback, € 46.95
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Examining mediums from sculpture and painting to public health brochures, this lavishly illustrated survey looks for - and finds - a lot more homoeroticism in American art than one might expect. It surveys how the male body has been portrayed for the last 150 years. From the academic-style paintings of Thomas Eakins in the 19th century to González-Torres's conceptual works ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Waugh, Willie Walker: Lust Unearthed

USA 2004, 318 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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In the manner of his bestselling »Out/Lines«, Thomas Waugh presents more historical, erotically charged drawings, depicting aspects of gay male sexuality that were once hidden from public view. The 200-plus, never-before-published drawings in »Lust Unearthed« are from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek, a film and TV designer from the 1940s to the 1980s. DuBek was a passionate advocate and ... Weiterlesen

Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan: Andy Warhol - Prince of Pop

USA 2004, 193 pp., hardbound, € 15.69
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Warhol's career spanned advertising, painting, filmmaking, and magazine publishing. This biography covers his childhood and art school years in Pittsburgh, his successful career in commercial art, and his rise in the Pop Art movement. Chapters also cover his dependence on his mother, his pursuit of celebrity, the lively social, drug, and artscene at his studio (christened the »Factory«), a near-fatal ... Weiterlesen

Claude Summers (ed.): The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts

USA 2004, 373 pp., brochure, € 26.59
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Why is St. Sebastian an icon of gay male artists? Is there such a thing as a gay or lesbian sensibility? What's the connection between Buddhist monasteries and Japanese homoerotic imagery? And are all those European bathing scenes as deliciously homoerotic as they seem? The perfect browser's guide to queer art - and the ideal reference work - this encyclopedia ... Weiterlesen

Molly McGarry, Fred Wasserman: Becoming Visible

USA 1998, 282 pp., hardbound, € 38.66
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The N.Y. Public Library's groundbreaking 1994 »Becoming Visible« exhibit was the largest and most extensive display of lesbian and gay history ever mounted in a museum or gallery space. Now, two of the curators of the exhibition have expanded upon it, pairing an authoritative text with more than 300 photographs, documents, and artifacts from the Library's collections as well as ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Derek Jarman's Garden

With photographs by Howard Sooley. UK 1995, 144 pp., hardcover, € 29.95
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Thames and Hudson
»Derek Jarman's Garden« is the last book Jarman ever wrote. It is a fitting memorial to a brilliant and greatly loved artist and film maker who, against all odds, made a breathtakingly beautiful garden in the most inhospitable of places - the flat, bleak, often desolate expanse of shingle overlooked by the Dungeness nuclear power station. Here is Jarman's own ... Weiterlesen