{"product_id":"living-histories-queer-views-and-old-masters-9781913875398","title":"Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new and stimulating way of looking at Old Master paintings with a foreword by Hanya Yanagihara, contributions by Jonathan Anderson, Jessica Bell Brown, Christopher Lew, Jason Reynolds, Legacy Russell, and Russell Tovey, and works by Jenna Gribbon, Doron Langberg, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Salman Toor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting volume featuring the work of four New York-based artists, each presenting a single new work in conversation with celebrated paintings in The Frick Collection, with particular emphasis on issues of gender and queer identity typically excluded from narratives of early modern European art. The idea of commissioning four works to display at Frick Madison emerged when four masterpieces by Vermeer, Holbein, and Rembrandt were loaned to exhibitions. Works by \u003cb\u003eJenna Gribbon, Doron Langberg, Toyin Ojih Odutola\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSalman Toor\u003c\/b\u003e were commissioned to replace them, alongside other works by these artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the result of the four New York artists' responses to the Frick's collection, and the conversations their work engendered. Written contributions are provided by \u003cb\u003eJonathan Anderson, Jessica Bell Brown, Christopher Lew, Jason Reynolds, Legacy Russell, \u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRussell Tovey\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAimee Ng \u003c\/b\u003eis a curator, The Frick Collection, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXavier F. 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Born and raised in New York City, she is the executive director \u0026amp; chief curator of the experimental new media, art, and performance institution The Kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRussell Tovey\u003c\/b\u003e as an actor, producer, art collector and podcaster. He played the role of Kevin Matheson in the HBO original series \u003ci\u003eLooking\u003c\/i\u003e and Patrick Read in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Horror Story: NYC\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHanya Yanagihara\u003c\/b\u003e is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer. 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