Bros & Brosephines


Book Description

Over the past two decades, the exiled Russian artist Slava Mogutin has gained international acclaim for his gritty, candid portrayal of disaffected youth and documentation of alternative urban subcultures, as well as his writings, multimedia work, and political activism.Bros & Brosephinesis a survey of Mogutin's studio and fashion photography, commissioned portraits, and previously unpublished images. From his early raw analog snapshots to elaborate compositions, sets, and post-production, the book offers Mogutin's signature explosive blend of art, fashion, and fetish, transcending and dissecting the conventional notions of beauty and masculinity.The monograph also features Mogutin's collaborations with fellow artists, including Brian Kenny, Gio Black Peter, Andrey Bartenev, Asher Levine, Martin Elmasflaco, Sebastien Meunier, François Sagat, Jan Wandrag, and many more.




NYC Go-Go


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Slava Mogutin - the notorious Russian dissident-turned-art-star and creator of the critically acclaimed Lost Boys - returns with his second monograph. A tribute to the golden age of New York City nightlife, NYC Go-Go is a visually stunning collection that takes readers behind the velvet ropes and into the seedier, seamier side of New York's still-pounding gay club life.




Lost and Found Voices


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One writer is stranded by the Second World War. Another flees multiple revolutions to live the rest of his life in Rio de Janeiro. Two others, public about their sexuality at home, choose self-exile. In Lost and Found Voices Luc Beaudoin offers a critical engagement with these four displaced authors: Witold Gombrowicz, Valerii Pereleshin, Abdellah Taïa, and Slava Mogutin. Not quite fitting into their respective diasporas and sharing an urge to express their queer desires, it is in their published works of literature, film, and photography that these writers locate their shifting identities and emergent queer voices. Their artistry is the basis from which Beaudoin traces their expressions of desire in language, culture, and community, offering a contextual queer reading that navigates their linguistic, cultural, artistic, and sexual self-translations and self-portrayals. Their choices are determinative: Gombrowicz masked his attraction to men in his works, keeping the truth hidden in an intimate diary; Pereleshin explored his lust in Brazilian Portuguese after being shunned by the Russian diaspora; Taïa writes in French to destabilize both the language and his status as an immigrant in France; Mogutin becomes a hardcore gay rebel in word and image to rattle assumptions about gay life. Bringing authors generally not familiar to an English-speaking readership into one volume, and including Beaudoin's own experience of living between languages, Lost and Found Voices provides provocative insights into what it means to be gay in both the past and the present.




Last Sunday in June


Book Description

On the last Sunday in June, New York celebrates gay pride in style! Originated to honour the Stonewall Riots of 1969, Gay Pride Month culminates in a parade that attracts over 750,000 people of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities and classes. Having documented this attraction for the past decade, the author of the massive best-seller Back in the Days showcases an extraordinary collection of photos taken of loving lesbians, flaming fags, tasteful transsexuals and dramatic drag queens, all done up in their Sunday best to celebrate their day of pride.




BAM... and Then It Hit Me


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President Emerita of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Karen Brooks Hopkins pens BAM…and Then It Hit Me, an inspiring memoir of her 36 years at the iconic cultural institution, America's oldest performing arts center. The book has a sharp focus on concepts such as leadership, innovation, urban revitalization (including the transformation of Brooklyn from Manhattan Outpost to the coolest neighborhood on the planet), as highly successful cultural fundraising played critical roles in the colorful evolution of this world-class cultural juggernaut in the performing arts.




Walker's Way


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Isabelle Storey's memoir of her 10-year marriage to Walker Evans. The story of an elegant young woman's infatuation with a great American artist - with the man himself, with what he stood for aesthetically and with his artistic and social circle and how her initial passion gradually cooled into disenchantment. In candid, poignant narrative, which draws on the couple's correspondence, Isabelle describes how their marriage grew more formal, cooler and eventually failed altogether as Isabelle felt compelled to move on.




Food Chain


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Illustrated by the author, Food Chain is Slava Mogutin's first collection in English. Part memoir, part political satire, part magic realism, the book presents a scope of texts from his early teenage poems to his latest writings, dubbed by the recent Russian anti-gay law as "homosexual propaganda."




Abstract Bodies


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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 decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to explore the human as an implicit reference. Even as the statue and the figure were left behind, artists and critics asked how the human, and particularly gender and sexuality, related to abstract sculptural objects that refused the human form. This book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender and queer theory, David J. Getsy offers innovative and archivally rich new interpretations of artworks by and critical writing about four major artists—Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Nancy Grossman (b. 1940), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), and David Smith (1906–1965). Abstract Bodies makes a case for abstraction as a resource in reconsidering gender’s multiple capacities and offers an ambitious contribution to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field.




Scott Burton


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"This book brings together Burton's writings on art and performance ... tracing his development as an art critic and including his early artist statements. This period, from 1965 to 1975, was foundational for Burtons' later artistic practice"--P. 1.




Rodin


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The arts: general issues.