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Author:

Weinberg, Jonathan, 1957- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvi, 216 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Art, American--New York--New York--20th century.
Waterfronts--History--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Artists--New York--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
Gay culture--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Homosexuality and art--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Art, American.
Artists--Social conditions.
Gay culture.
Homosexuality and art.
New York (State)--New York.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Initiations -- Material for blackmail -- Degenerate structure -- David Wojnarowicz in New York -- The pickup machine -- Something possible everywhere.

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

ISBN:

0271082178
9780271082172

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1048658443

LCCN:

2018035900

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)