Overview
These artistsāincluding Paul Cadmus, Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein, Charles Henri Ford, Jared French, Margaret Hoening French, George Platt Lynes, Bernard Perlin, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Alexander Jensen Yow, and their circleāwere new social creatures, playfully and boldly homosexual at a time when it was both criminalized and pathologized. They pursued a modernism of the bodyādriven by eroticism and bounded by intimacy, forming a hothouse world within a world that doesnāt nicely fit any subsequent narrative of modern American art. In their work, they looked away from abstraction toward older sources and modelsāclassical and archaic forms of figuration and Renaissance techniques. What might be seen as a reactionary aesthetic maneuver was made in the service of radical contentāendeavoring to depict their own lives. Their little-known history is presented here through never-before-exhibited photographs, sculptures, drawings, ephemera, and rarely seen major paintingsāoffering the first view of its kind into their interwoven intellectual, artistic, and personal lives.
Edited by Jarrett Earnest, who also curated the exhibition, The Young and Evil features new scholarship by art historians Ann Reynolds and Kenneth E. Silver and an interview with Alexander Jensen Yow by Michael Schreiber.
This book title, The Young and Evil (Queer Modernism in New York, 1930-1955), ISBN: 9781644230268, by Jarrett Earnest, Ann Reynolds, Kenneth E. Silver, Michael Schreiber, published by David Zwirner Books (January 21, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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