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    Pier groups : art and sex along the New York waterfront / Jonathan Weinberg.

    • Title:Pier groups : art and sex along the New York waterfront / Jonathan Weinberg.
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    • Author/Creator:Weinberg, Jonathan, 1957- author.
    • Published/Created:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
      ©2019.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Art, American--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
      Waterfronts--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
      Artists--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
      Gay culture--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
      Homosexuality and art--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
    • Description:xvi, 216 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
    • Summary:"Explores the uses of the abandoned Hudson River docks in New York City by artists and a newly emerging gay subculture between 1971 and 1983"--Provided by publisher.
      "In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River became a site for extraordinary works of art and a popular place for nude sunbathing and anonymous sex. Jonathan Weinberg's provocative book - part art history, part memoir - weaves interviews, documentary photographs, literary texts, artworks, and film stills to show how avant-garde practices competed and mingled with queer identities along the Manhattan waterfront. Artists as varied as Vito Acconci, Alvin Baltrop, Shelley Seccombe, and David Wojnarowicz made work in and about the fire-ravaged structures that only twenty years before had been at the center of the world's busiest shipping port. At the same time, the fight for the rights of gay, lesbian, and transgendered people, spurred by the 1969 Stonewall riots, was dramatically transforming the cultural and social landscape of New York City. Gay men suddenly felt free to sunbathe on the piers naked, cruise, and have sex in public. While artists collaborated to transform the buildings of Pier 34 into makeshift art studios and exhibition spaces, gay men were converting Pier 46 into what Delmas Howe calls an "arena for sexual theater." Featuring one hundred exemplary works from the era and drawing from a rich variety of source material, interviews, and Weinberg's personal experience, Pier Groups breaks new ground to look at the relationship of avant-garde art to resistant subcultures and radical sexuality." -- Publisher's description
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780271082172 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0271082178
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Initiations
      2. Material for Blackmail
      3. Degenerate Structure
      4. David Wojnarowicz in New York
      5. Pickup Machine
      6. Something Possible Everywhere.
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