Category: General Photography and Art
Never show everything: Big curves and suggestive smiles"Girls, Gags & Giggles" ran publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so fetishistic no one noticed they were never nude. Whi ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
A riveting excursion through Warhol's incomparable personal collections, from the bizarre to the illuminating Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ordinary and quirky. Since ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical or tender, discreetly coded or defiantly outspoken.This beautiful book illustrates the wide variety of queer art from around the world - exploring bod ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
Original and theoretically astute, Abstract Bodies is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender's mutability and multiplicity. In that decad ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
Revised and updated, this landmark volume presents the complete oil paintings of Georges Quaintance. An astonishing mixture of art and kitsch, the collection reveals the artist's erotic fantasies, unique visualization, and painting talent.
Category: General Photography and Art
A revised, updated edition of the acclaimed historical overview of Queer art - available for the first time in paperback Updated and revised, Art & Queer Cultureis a comprehensive and definitive survey of artworks that have constructed, contested, or otherwise responded to alternative forms of sexua ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
Art after Stonewall reveals the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender civil rights movement on the art world. Illustrated with more than 200 works, this groundbreaking volume stands as a visual history of twenty years in American queer life. It focuses on openly LGBT artists like Nan Gol ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
Art Ablaze Pyrotechnics and pure self-expression at Burning Man One hundred miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. Ex ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
A collection of Robert Billington's animal photos.
Category: General Photography and Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Life lines: The 80s art star who put poverty, power, and racism on the wall An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO," before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted ba ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
An archive of collective memory and exuberant testimony; a luminous map to navigate a dark and disorienting present; an infinite geography of possible futures What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work--images, photos ...Show more
Category: General Photography and Art
Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work had been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacr ...Show more
