Outlaw representation : censorship & homosexuality in twentieth-century American art
Richard Meyer (Author)
"'I know it when I see it ... ' These words, famously spoken in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, became the rallying cry of the anti-obscenity lobby as their enraged howls became the soundtrack to a tumultuous mixture of modern art, homosexuality, and public funding. Author Richard Meyer charts the history of this American culture war through detailed analysis of the work of artists who fought on the front lines, often finding themselves personally vilified ... and their artwork suppressed, denounced, and censored. Meyer tells the heroic story of the artists who, rather than acquiesce to their critics, doubled down in their response and created an "Outlaw Representation" of homosexuality. Liberated by their new outlaw status, the homosexual art community was suddenly free to create some of the most socially important work of their generation."--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2018
Echo Point Books & Media, Brattleboro, Vermont, 2018
xiv, 376 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm
9781626543171, 9781635618297, 1626543178, 1635618290
1031254839
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2003 edition
Preface to the 2018 edition
1. The red envelope: on censorship and homosexuality
2. A different American scene: Paul Cadmus and the satire of sexuality
3. Most wanted men: homoeroticism and the secret of censorship in early Warhol
4. Barring desire: Robert Mapplethorpe and the discipline of photography
5. Vanishing points: art, AIDS, and the problem of visibility
Afterword: Unrespectable
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index
Originally published in 2002 by Oxford University Press