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Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution, a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children, her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent...
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"Pictures and Passions is the first comprehensive survey of gay and lesbian visual expression in all media, from the dawn of time to the present day. Superseding more narrowly focused studies, this sweeping overview - encompassing art by, for, or about lesbians and gays - scans a panorama of visual images across the world and across time, from Europe and North America to China and Australia, from the Stone Age to the Stonewall riot and beyond."--BOOK...
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First published in 1986 to wide critical accalaim, The Sexual Perspective broke new ground by bringing together and discussing the painting, sculpture and photography of artist who were lesbian/gay/queer/bisexual. The lavishingly and seductively illustrated new edition examines the increased lesbian visibility within the visual arts as well as artists' responses to the AIDS epidemic. Emmanuel Cooper places the art in its artistic, social and legal...
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"M threw out accepted technique and dogma to paint from life with dazzling clarity. In the process he laid bare his own sexual longings and the brutal realities of life with shocking frankness. Peter Robb evokes the seething and dangerous world of Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. Caravaggio is seen as a provocateur to a culture riven by the Inquisition and the Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite...
6) Butch/femme
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This beautifully produced collection of thoughts and photographs celebrates the gender roles, erotic desires, and self-perceptions of lesbian life. Black-and-white photographs.
8) Venus envy
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"A misdiagnosis of cancer leads successful art dealer Mary Frazier Armstrong to send letters to her loved ones in which she comes out of the closet--letters she wants to retrieve when she finds that the diagnosis was a mistake."--NoveList Plus.
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Told as a series of interconnected stories, Jane Rule's fifth novel-offering six characters' shifting perspectives-takes us to a place where feminism, creativity, and sexual politics collide Contract with the World follows a group of friends, artists, and lovers as they negotiate the shifting terrain of the 1970s-a time when gay and lesbian politics were just emerging. Divided into six parts, the novel enters a world marked by desire, ambition,...
15) Men in the sun
16) Male nude now
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As images of men's bodies have proliferated in pop culture and advertising during the past decade, many artists and photographers have taken up the male nude as a primary subject. Recent work has sparked controversy as well as praise for its shocking frankness, and the line between art and pornography has become increasingly difficult to define. New digital technologies have brought about new ways of representing the body, and we are now faced with...
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"How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization presents a broad yet incisive look at how an unusual 'immigrant' group, homosexual men, has influenced mainstream American society, and has, in many ways, become mainstream itself. From the way camp, irony, and the gay aesthetic have become part and parcel of our national sensibility to the undeniable effect gay cognoscenti have had on film, literature, music, and television, Cathy Crimmins examines how gay...
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AIDS is moving through every corner of the American landscape with frightening speed and force, but its presence is perhaps most deeply felt in the arts community, where it is having a shaping influence on the kind of work being produced. In this searingly powerful, daring, vitally important work from the front lines of the crisis, Andrea Vaucher explores, for the first time, the impact of AIDS on the work of artists who have tested HIV-positive themselves,...