Pier Groups - Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront

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.

About the author

Jonathan Weinberg is the curator of the Maurice Sendak Foundation and teaches at the Yale School of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author of Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art and Ambition and Love in Modern American Art and a coeditor, with Alejandro Anreus and Diana Linden, of The Social and the Real, also published by Penn State University Press. He is the lead curator for the touring exhibition Art After Stonewall, 1969–1989, organized by the Columbus Museum of Art to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots. His paintings are in many public and private collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Montclair Art Museum.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Weinberg, Jonathan (Yale School of Art/Rhode Island School of Design/The Maurice Sendak Foundation) Weinberg, Weinberg Jonathan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2019
• EAN: 9780271082172
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08217-2
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / American / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Gay & Lesbian studies, History of the Americas, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, ART / History / 20th & 21st Century