Pop Out: Queer Warhol (Series Q) (Hardcover)

by Jennifer Doyle (Editor), Jonathan Flatley (Editor), Jose Esteban Munoz (Editor) "The first time I got busted was together with some two hundred people watching Lonesome Cowboys in its first week of screening in London in..." (more)
Key Phrases: queer childhood, scum manifesto, being sexed, New York, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat (more...)

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Pop Out fulfills its fabulous missionNto reclaim Andy Warhol as a queer artist/iconNwith a painterly thoroughness. Andy would have said it best: OGre-e-eat!OONMichael Musto blurb from Douglas Crimp to come after Christmas

Product Description
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied away from his swishiness. These essays consider Warhol in various contexts and within the history of the communities in which he figured. 53 illustrations.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Duke University Press (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082231732X
• ISBN-13: 978-0822317326
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,223,647 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars asking big questions, February 27, 2008

By	Bruce P. Barten (Saint Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Pop Out: Queer Warhol (Series Q) (Paperback)

Art has given certain institutions the power to challenge the individuals within modern society to determine their own personal reactions to various situations. Linear thinking is likely to seem murky trying to sort out all the aspects of this that people who study find interesting.

I lived for years in Minneapolis and was considered crazy enough by people who lived there that certain issues this book raises have also played a part in my own evaluation of how things like undercover sting operations work. It seems rather small compared to war, bombs, the death of journalists, television stations that are bombed for broadcasting propaganda, and the state of politics in 2008, but that merely reflects that I did not escape having a hell opf a context when I left Minneapolis.

There are people who are trying to shape society so that all these things reach an equilibrium in which nobody cares, and reading this book might help you know how they feel.

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2.0 out of 5 stars oh well......, January 5, 2003

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This review is from: Pop Out: Queer Warhol (Series Q) (Paperback)

I didn't think this book was particularly strong. It has writings from academics whom I totally admire. And I understand why people would study gayness as it relates to 1960s popular culture. Still, this book has very little about Warhol and his sexuality in it. A person is better off reading a biography of Warhol, especially those written by the people who knew him personally. This was quite an unimpressive anthology.