Ivana Marjanovic: QueerBeograd Cabaret

A Shared Space Between Queer, Anti-Fascism and No Borders Politics. D 2024, 300 pp., brochure, € 46.30
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The clandestine festival QueerBeograd created spaces of critique and transformation in order to foster a politics of interconnectedness. Ivana Marjanovi explores the transnational activist cabaret between 2006 and 2008, which was devised, directed and produced by Jet Moon, a founding member of the QueerBeograd collective. This pioneering study demonstrates how the process of staging QueerBeograd Cabaret created a shared space ... Weiterlesen

Jack Parlett: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr

USA 2022. 252 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Minnesota Press
»The Poetics of Cruising« explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century to Eileen Myles in the twenty-first. What is it that happens, asks Jack Parlett, and what is it that is sought, in this often transient moment of perception we call cruising, this perceptual arena ... Weiterlesen

Blake Gopnik: Warhol

UK 2020, 961 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin UK
To this day, mention the name »Andy Warhol« to almost anyone and you'll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol's name and dominated the public's image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. In »Warhol«, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes ... Weiterlesen

Charles Kaiser: The Gay Metropolis

The Landmark History of Gay Life in America. USA 2019, 432 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Grove Press
»The Gay Metropolis« is a landmark saga of struggle and triumph that was instantly recognized as the most authoritative and substantial work of its kind. For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings, Charles Kaiser has brought this history into the 21st century. In this new edition he covers the three court cases that lead to the revolutionary legalization of ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp

GB 2018, 64 pp., pb., € 7.95
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Penguin UK
»The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.« - These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between »high« and »low« culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Natalie M. Nobitz: History's Queer Stories

Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction. D 2018, 320 pp., brochure, € 41.11
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Critical analysis of the dramatization of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie M. Nobitz closes ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: David Bowie Made Me Gay

100 Years of LBGT Music. UK 2017, 372 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance. LGBT messages are now brought to the forefront of popular music. This book covers the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Clarke: The Art of Looking

The Life and Treasures of Collector Charles Leslie. D 2015, 160 pp., color, hardback, € 49.99
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Bruno Gmünder
Have you heard of Charles Leslie? Thomas Mann pinched his butt. He has the biggest penis collection in the world. He is one of the fathers of modern New York's SoHo neighborhood. And he is - together with his partner Fritz Lohman - founder of the first museum for gay and lesbian art in the world. The Leslie-Lohman Museum is ... Weiterlesen
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David Leddick (Hg.): The Male Nude

D 2015, 576 S., Farbe u. S/W, geb., € 20.60
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Zum 25-Jahre-Jubiläum des Taschen-Verlags gab der Verlag in einer unschlagbar günstigen, limitierten Auflage einen seiner größten Erfolge im Bereich der Männerfotografie noch einmal heraus: auf über 500 Seiten wird die Geschichte der Männerfotografie anhand von ebenso vielen Bildbeispielen von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des vergangenen Jahrhunderts aufgezeigt. Dabei werden Änderungen im präferierten Körpertyp, in den männlichen Schönheitsidealen und in ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Clarke: Porn - from Andy Warho to X-Tube

D 2013, 256 S., Broschur, € 49.95
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Bruno Gmünder
Die Geschichte des schwulen Pornos ist verdammt spannend: Von den diskreten Anfängen in den späten Sechzigern bis zum Pay-per-Minute Porno, den wir uns direkt auf den heimischen Bildschirm streamen, war es ein weiter Weg, der in großen Schritten zurückgelegt wurde. Das Buch führt reich bebildert in deutscher und englischer Sprache durch die Jahrzehnte.

Louis-Georges Tin: The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

USA/UK 2012, 197 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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MIT Press
Heterosexuality is celebrated - in film and on TV, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards - and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: The Queer Art of Failure

USA/UK 2011, 212 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 49.95
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It's about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society, to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing, and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. The author proposes »low theory« as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at ... Weiterlesen

Alice Echols: Hot Stuff

Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. USA 2011, 338pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 15.95
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In the 1970s, disco became inseparable from the emergence of the »gay macho«, a rising black middle class, and a growing, if equivocal, openness about female sexuality. The disco scene carved out a haven for gay men who reclaimed their sexuality on dance floors where they had once been surveilled and harassed: and gay discos needed music - the genre ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Hammer: Hammer!

Making Movies out of Sex and Life. USA 2010, 281 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 27.95
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Feminist Press
»Hammer!« is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she ... 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

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

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