TY  - BOOK
AU  - Earnest,Jarrett
AU  - Reynolds,Ann Morris
AU  - Silver,Kenneth E.
AU  - Schreiber,Michael
TI  - The young and evil: queer modernism in New York, 1930-1955  
SN  - 9781644230268
AV  - ND237.Z46 J377 2020
U1  - 700.922 23
PY  - 2020///], ©2019
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - David Zwirner Books
KW  - Gay artists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Modernism (Art)
KW  - Homosexuality in art
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Gay men in art
KW  - Exhibition catalogs
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at David Zwirner from February 21-April 13, 2019; A brief history of intimacy / Jarrett Earnest -- No strangers / Ann Reynolds -- Homo erectus and his discontents / Kenneth E. Silver -- Intimate companion: a conversation with Alexander Jensen Yow / Michael Schreiber -- Biographies / Kara Carmack
N2  - "The story of a group of artists and writers active during the first half of the twentieth century, when homosexuality was as problematic for American culture as figuration was for modernist painting. These artists--including Paul Cadmus, Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein, Charles Henri Ford, Jared French, Margaret Hoening French, George Platt Lynes, Bernard Perlin, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Alexander Jensen Yow, and their circle--were new social creatures, playfully and boldly homosexual at a time when it was both criminalized and pathologized. They pursued a modernism of the body--driven by eroticism and bounded by intimacy, forming a hothouse world within a world that doesn't nicely fit any subsequent narrative of modern American art. ... They looked away from abstraction toward older sources and models--classical and archaic forms of figuration and Renaissance techniques. What might be seen as a reactionary aesthetic maneuver was made in the service of radical content--endeavoring to depict their own lives. Their little-known history is presented here through never- before-exhibited photographs, sculptures, drawings, ephemera, and rarely seen major paintings--offering the first view of its kind into their interwoven intellectual, artistic, and personal lives"-- Publisher's website
ER  -