{"product_id":"inventing-the-gay-gaze-9781890834739","title":"Inventing the Gay Gaze","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorian Jack Fritscher's newest book, \u003cem\u003eInventing the Gay Gaze: Rex, Peter Berlin, Arthur Tress, and Crawford Barton\u003c\/em\u003e, is the third volume in his award-winning series \u003cem\u003eProfiles in Gay Courage\u003c\/em\u003e showcasing twentieth-century artists speaking to the twenty-first century in this revealing book of lively annotated oral-history interviews as enjoyable as heart-to-heart conversations in an artist's private atelier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe artist Rex drawing his pointillist pictures, and the three photographers, Berlin, Tress, and Barton, speak for themselves inventing their own authentic queer eye during the Stonewall 1970s dominated by the politically-correct gaze of censors, and by the influence of their common frenemy Robert Mapplethorpe whose spirit infuses this boundary-breaking book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEyewitness Fritscher has known these artists since the 1970s when as editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eDrummer \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, he first published their pioneering work. He canonizes his iconic friends by curating their specific avant-garde histories within the context of mainstream gay history that readers will find informative and entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn four unfiltered conversations, he profiles the reclusive anarchist Rex who designated him to hear his deathbed confession. In his chat with photographer Peter Berlin, celebrating Berlin's 80th birthday, Berlin details how his camera-eye created his strutting alter-ego. In dialogue with ethnographic photographer Arthur Tress, Tress explains using the magical realism of midcentury modernism to develop his unique perspective. In his tête-à-tête visit with the dying Crawford Barton, the key photographer of 1970s Castro Street, Barton recalls escaping the homophobic American South to document diversities of men in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor art lovers, LGBTQ+ archives, book groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFritscher, Jack J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 65+ Years as a Published Novelist, Journalist, Photographer, Videographer, Tenured University Professor, Arts Critic, Historian, and Award-Winning Writer. Specialist in American Literature, Creative Writing, Criticism, and American Pop Culture, including the History of Masculine-Identified Gay Pop Culture","brand":"Palm Drive Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453722231058,"sku":"9781890834739","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c50a7e80-235c-4595-9319-580264e7dbf8.jpg?v=1751979050","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/inventing-the-gay-gaze-9781890834739","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}