Simon Froehling: Lange Nächte Tag

CH 2010, 196 S., geb., € 22.60
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Bilger Verlag
Erst seit ein paar Wochen kennen sich Jirko und Patrick. Die beiden könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein - Patrick groß und schon mit leichten Bauchansatz, Jirko klein, schmächtig, fast fragil. Im Yoga-Kurs hatten sie sich kennen gelernt und gingen zusammen in Jirkos Wohnung. Zwar war der erste Sex nicht der beste, aber beiden war gleich klar, dass es nicht nur ein ... Weiterlesen

Jane Pritchard (ed.): Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes, 1909-1929

UK/USA 2010, 240 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 49.95
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Serge Diaghilev was an extraordinarily gifted impresario, curator, director and animator of the arts. He was perfectly at home driving the wave of creative energy that pushed theatrical performance to the cutting edge of cultural activity in the early 20th century and perfectly placed to export Russian culture to a thrilled and expectant Western Europe. Active in Europe and America ... Weiterlesen

Juan A.H. Brasas: Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship

Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity. USA 2010, 206pp., brochure, € 35.95
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A giant of American letters, Walt Whitman is known both as a poet and, to many, as an early precursor of the gay liberation movement. This book recovers for today's reader a lost Whitman, delving into the original context and intentions of his poetry and prose. As the author shows, Whitman saw himself as a founder of a new religion. ... 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

Peter Schmidt: Inszenierte Welten - Der Gestalter Peter Schmidt

D 2010, 383 S. mit durchgehend vierfarb. Abb., geb, € 69.90
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Collection Rolf Heyne
Peter Schmidt (geb. 1937 in Bayreuth) gründete 1973 in Hamburg ein Studio - seine gestalterischen Werke prägten maßgeblich die Ästhetik der modernen Bundesrepublik - von der Apollinaris-Flasche über das Bundeswehr-Logo bis hin zu Wolfgang Joops Markenbild. Er entwarf Bühnenbilder für John Neumeiers Hamburg Ballett, ist Gesellschafter des Hamburger Ernst-Deutsch-Theaters, gestaltete als Architekt u.a. die Konzerthalle in Bamberg. In diesem Buch ... Weiterlesen

Moe Meyer: An Archaeology of Posing

Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality. USA 2010, 221pp., brochure, € 28.69
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University of Wisconsin Press
This book compiles two decades of new and previously published writing on gay culture by one of the field's most provocative and outspoken critics. Diverging from the text-based premise of most queer theory, Meyer utilizes performance studies and interpretive anthropology to examine camp and drag performances in the spaces in which they appear. He explores a variety of topics - ... Weiterlesen

Scott Herring: Another Country

Queer Anti-Urbanism. USA/UK 2010, 235 pp. with illustrations + photographs, brochure, € 44.95
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New York University Press
The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, the author draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines - art, media, literature, performance, and fashion studies - he develops an ... 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

Horst Koegler: John Neumeier

Bilder eines Lebens - Pictures from a Life. D 2010, 255 S. mit Abb., geb., € 30.79
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John Neumeier (Jahrgang 1942) nahm Ballettunterricht in seiner Heimatstadt Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in Kopenhagen und London. 1973 kam er als Chef ans Hamburg Ballett, das er vollständig umkrempelte - personell wie stilistisch (er feuerte die gesamte alte Truppe und brach radikal mit vorherrschenden choreografischen Balletttraditionen). Auch wenn es anfangs so aussah, als würde er sich dort nicht lange gegen diverse Widerstände ... Weiterlesen

Oliver Demny, Martin Richling (Hg.): Sex und Subversion

Pornofilme jenseits des Mainstreams. D 2010, 191 S. mit Abb., Broschur, € 20.46
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Der Pornofilm ist nicht nur die kommerziell bedeutendste Filmgattung, sondern zugleich die am meisten verachtete. Bei genauerem Hinsehen wird klar, dass schon seit den Anfängen des Genres sich hier ein breites Qualitätsspektrum auftut: es gibt hier experimentelle, gute, unterhaltsame, ästhetisch ansprechende, auch kritische und subversive Pornos. Die Autorinnen und Autoren in diesem Sammelband picken sich exemplarisch Pornostreifen heraus, die die ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: City Boy

My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. UK/D/USA/AUS 2010, 297pp., Pb, € 19.95
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When Edmund White left the Midwest after college he had an opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard. Instead, he followed a lover to New York City. There he arrives broke and unknown, struggling to express himself as a gay man even as he holds out hope of being »cured«. Present at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, White witnesses the ... Weiterlesen

Barry Reay: New York Hustlers

Masculinity and Sex in Modern America. UK/USA 2010, 279pp., brochure, € 39.95
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This book - looking back from the 1990s into the early decades of the 20th century - maps the world of those known as »trade« - ostensibly straight men who would engage in homosexual sex - and hustlers - those who were paid for it. It was a milieu that was central to the sexual histories of several generations of ... Weiterlesen

John Waters: Role Models

USA 2010, 304pp., hardbound, € 23.95
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Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of suversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich, and happily horrify readers everywhere. »Role Models« is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to ... Weiterlesen

Alice Echols: Hot Stuff

Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. USA 2010, 338pp., hardbound, € 25.95
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In the 1970s, disco became inseparable from the emergence of »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 that ... Weiterlesen