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 Naked
Men : Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955 by David Leddick
The male nude has been
a staple of art since the Greeks graced their public buildings
with the glorified forms of gods and heroes. Renaissance artists
didn't hesitate to display the male form, particularly in
churches; the past 100 years of photography have seen a resurgence
of the male nude. Nonetheless, until now there's been very little
critical analysis of these nudes' homoerotic content. In his
Lambda Award-winning Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955,
David Leddick uses intensive research, interviews, and
photographic representations to uncover sources and inspirations
for the male nude through 20 years of contemporary art. Relying on
the words and visual work of hundreds of artists, models, and
writers (including George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Tennessee
Williams, and Gore Vidal), Leddick conjures up the images,
history, and social context of the mid-20th-century homoerotic
nude. Filled with photos and reproductions, Naked Men shows
us how gay sensibilities and gay culture have freed the male body
from social restraints in both art and everyday life. Leddick's The
Male Nude, while not strictly a companion volume, does
similar work, detailing more than a century of male nudes. As with
Naked Men, this book is lavishly and beautifully
illustrated. Both are important documents of gay male history and
culture. --Michael Bronski
The
Victorian Nude : Sexuality, Morality and Art by Alison
Smith
 Controversy
surrounding the nude in art is as strong now at the end of the
twentieth century as it was during the nineteenth. Victorian
paintings of the nude are still hidden from view in the storerooms
of galleries and museums. In this major new work, Alison Smith
unravels the fascinating background of this situation, and the
paradox that the nude was both an image of high culture and an
object of public moral outrage. Smith reveals how images of the
nude were used at all levels of Victorian culture, from
prestigious high-art paintings through to photographs and popular
entertainments; and discusses the many views as to whether these
were legitimate forms of representation or, in fact, pornography
and an incitement to unregulated sexual activity. With many
paintings published for the first time, the painters discussed and
illustrated in this book include Etty, Leighton, Burne-Jones,
Rossetti, Millais, Watts and the women artists, Henrietta Rae and
Anna Lea Merrit.
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This is an arbitrarily arranged grouping of
(primarily) male homoerotica, consciously collected by the GLBTHS
to represent the range of materials created for, or appropriated
by, homosexual men in North America during the 20th century. It
serves as an adjunct to, and framework for understanding, other
collections containing homoerotica that are held in the GLBTHS
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From the GLBT Historical Society. An
exhibit based on the book Nothing
But the Girl, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener, and
featuring archival material on lesbian erotica from the 1970s
through the present.
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New and used books, films, and annotated links
to photo galleries, essays, sex celebration sites and more.
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Queer Arts Resource is a not-for-profit
educational forum for the display and discussion of queer art and
culture. Until the recent advent of Queer Studies, the History of
Art has omitted most material of direct relevance to lesbians and
gays. Much has been suppressed, much has been lost due to neglect
or censorship, and a great deal has simply been overlooked. QAR is
expanding the range and depth of knowledge about contemporary and
historical queer art, and making this information freely available
on our website.
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There are many photographers in Japan who
specialize in erotic images, but Shun Koichi (Koiichi Inamine) is
the one who raised the subject of the male physique to an art
form. At first, he was involved making gay videos, but now he
concentrates his energy on photography. His work has an
established reputaion for superbly masculine models (90% are not
gay he explains), mostly selected from college students and
university atheletes. His genius is in capturing the Japanese male
physique at its peak of perfection and communicating the male
body's elusive erotic essence. He supervises all aspects of the
production of his work from the talent and settings to the design
of his gorgeous publications. He now has five photographic
collections in print.
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The Museo del Gayo tries to assemble works of
art by gay artists from all periods. Whenever possible, I have
selected those works which speak best to us about the artist's
sensitivities regarding his take on the male figure. The Museum
has several Galleries distributed in three sections, organized by
technique used: painting, drawing or mixed media.
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This site is divided into two main sections, gay
and straight, and offers different galleries for visitors and
members. The gallery contains explicitly sexual artwork and
thus requires an Adult Check ID for the full effect.
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A native of the Southern Appalachians, Greg Day
studied photography and anthropology at Rutgers University and
Georgia State University.
Since 1994 his new erotic images have been
exhibited at: The Charlie Chaplin Theater, Los Angeles; Keller's,
Paris; the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin ; Leslie-Lohman Gay Art
Foundation, New York and in San Francisco at: Blow Buddies,
Daddy's, Castro Station, ARU Gallery, Studio Shanghai West and
Josie's Cabaret. In 1995-97 his photographs were published in
PROJECT X - Agenda, RFD, Powerplay, Frontiers, International
Leatherman, F.Q. Quarterly, Bunkhouse and Gruf.
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Born in Norfolk,
Virginia on October 4 Jeff Code has spent his life exploring art
and the human form. He has learned to bring the two together
beautifully.
After his move to the Washington, DC area, his
love of photography lead him to embark on a career capturing the
natural artistry of the human form. He started by working with
local models who were starting to build their portfolios. He also
did a lot of promotional work for local businesses and clubs. To
Help give his work further exposure, he did a series of
exhibitions at local galleries and coffee shops.
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