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Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963

Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963

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Art Criticism & TheoryAmerican Art - GeneralGLBTQIA Studies

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ISBN10: 0822334860
ISBN13: 9780822334866
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 20 2005
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots--in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey's controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia--discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated via gossip and rumor. Between You and Me explores this informal, everyday talk and how it shaped artists' lives, their work, and its reception. Revealing the trivial and unserious aspects of the postwar art scene as key to understanding queer subjectivity, Gavin Butt argues for a richer, more expansive concept of historical evidence, one that supplements the verifiable facts of traditional historical narrative with the gossipy fictions of sexual curiosity.

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