num_pages: 392
description: From the U.S. Navy's 1934 confiscation of a painting of sailors on shore leave to contemporary culture wars over funding for the arts, conflicts surrounding homosexuality and creative freedom have shaped the history of modern art in America. Richard Meyer's Outlaws Representation tells the charged story of this strife through pioneering analysis of the works of gay artists and the circumstances under which these works have been attacked, suppressed, or censored outright. Focusing on the careers of Paul Cadmus, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Gran Fury, and Holly Hughes, Outlaw Representation explores how gay artists responded to the threat of censorship by producing their own "outlaw representations" of homosexuality. Instead of acquiescing to attacks on their work as indecent or obscene, these artists used the outlaw status of homosexuality to propose new forms of social, sexual, and creative life.
language: English
title: Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art
titlecomplete: Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art
genres: Art History, Queer, LGBT, Nonfiction, Gay, Art, History
ratings_count: 74
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Visual Arts
publisher: Beacon Press