Gay Gotham : art and underground culture in New York

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Label

Gay Gotham : art and underground culture in New York

Title remainder

art and underground culture in New York

Statement of responsibility

Donald Albrecht with Stephen Vider

Creator

• Albrecht, Donald

Contributor

• Vider, Stephen
• Museum of the City of New York

Author

• Albrecht, Donald
• Vider, Stephen

Host institution

• Museum of the City of New York

Subject

• Transgender artists -- New York (State) | New York -- Exhibitions
• Transgender people in art -- Exhibitions
• Gay culture -- New York (State) | New York -- Exhibitions
• Gay artists -- New York (State) | New York -- Exhibitions
• Homosexuality in art -- Exhibitions

Genre

• trueExhibitions

Language

eng

Summary

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 mid-century 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

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

700.8664

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• facsimiles

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs

Target audience

adult