Title: Gay Gotham : art and underground culture in New York /
Authors: Albrecht, Donald,; Vider, Stephen,; Museum of the City of New York,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gay culture New York (State) New York Exhibitions.; Gay artists New York (State) New York Exhibitions.; Transgender artists New York (State) New York Exhibitions.; Homosexuality in art Exhibitions.; Transgender people in art Exhibitions.; Gay artists; Gay culture; Homosexuality in art.; Transgender artists; Transgender people in art.; New York (State) New York
Abstract: This book brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up in New York over the last hundred years. A creative class whose radical ideas would determine much of modern culture. More than 200 images illuminate their personal bonds, scandal-provoking secrets at the time and many largely unknown to the public since. Starting with the bohemian era of the 1910s and 1920s, when the pansy craze drew voyeurs of all types to Greenwich Village and Harlem, the book winds through midcentury Broadway as well as Fire Island as it emerged as a hotbed, turns to the post-Stonewall, decade-long wild party that revolved around clubs like the Mineshaft and Studio 54, and continues all the way through the activist mobilization spurred by the AIDS crisis and the move toward acceptance at the century's close. By peeling back the overlapping layers of this cultural network that thrived despite its illicitness, this publication reveals a whole new side of the history of New York and celebrates the power of artistic collaboration to transcend oppression.
Contents: Shadows in the light / Donald Albrecht and Stephen Vider -- 1910-1933 : visible subcultures -- Lesbian Chic : Mercedes de Acosta -- Harlem spring : Richard Bruce Nugent -- 1933-1939 : open secrets -- High glamour : George Platt Lynes -- Center stage : Leonard Bernstein -- Camp it up : Andy Warhol -- 1969-1993 : out New York -- Weaving a lesbian art : Harmony Hammond -- From the margins : Robert Mapplethorpe.