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sentasart: GUNDULA SCHULZE ELDOWYRajk und Matthias,...

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GUNDULA SCHULZE ELDOWY
Rajk und Matthias, Berlin
Gelatinesilberabzug. 59,5 x 39,5 cm (72 x 53 cm).

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lapetitecole: Lewis Hine

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heyy-faggot: Cadmus, Paul (1904-1999) American painter Paul...

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Cadmus, Paul (1904-1999)

American painter Paul Cadmus is best known for the satiric innocence of his frequently censored paintings of burly men in skin-tight clothes and curvaceous women in provocative poses, but he also created works that celebrate same-sex domesticity.

Born in New York City on December 17, 1904 into a family of commercial artists, Cadmus studied at the National Academy of Design and the Arts Students League. He lived in Europe from 1931 to 1933, where he traveled with artist Jared French and where he produced his first mature canvases.

Along with fellow painters Bernard Perlin, Jared French, and George Tooker, Cadmus became known as a “Magical Realist,” though none of the artists truly accepted the term.In the 1930s, Cadmus became the center of a circle of gay men who were prominent within the arts in New York City. This circle included his brother-in-law, Lincoln Kirstein, who helped found the American School of Ballet, and the photographer George Platt Lynes, for whom Cadmus frequently modeled.

In the early 1930s, Cadmus worked for the Public Works of Art Project, which was later incorporated into the WPA. This experience was to help shape his style for the rest of his long career. Nearly illustrative, his paintings remained linked to a realist style found in many WPA works of the 1930s.

In the 1930s, Cadmus used caricature, satire, and innuendo to veil the homoeroticism of his subjects, which radically pushed at the boundaries of acceptability. Cadmus’s 1933 painting The Fleet’s In! was selected by the WPA for inclusion in a show of the PWAP art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, and in 1934 it placed him at the center of a public controversy.

Like many of his early works, the painting is ostensibly heterosexual in its depiction of sailors flirting with young women, who may be prostitutes, but it nevertheless manages to suggest a homosexual exchange between a well-dressed civilian, who sports a red tie, a widely recognized signal of homosexuality from the turn of the twentieth century, and a sailor to whom he offers a cigarette.

The painting’s homoerotic subtext led to its removal after the opening of the exhibition. Frequently cited as one of the earliest incidents of government censorship, the removal of the painting was almost certainly motivated byhomophobia.

The Navy maintains that based on public outcry the Secretary of the Navy, Claude A. Swanson, ordered Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt to exclude the painting from the show.

However, several Cadmus biographers maintain that the picture was removed by Roosevelt on his own behest. Given his relationship to President Roosevelt, the answer may never be known. In 1935 or 1936, after the controversy had subsided, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt sent the painting to the Alibi Club in Washington, D. C., where it remained until the early 1980s.

Cadmus’s painting Coney Island (1935) also became the subject of controversy. Its portrayal of local residents engaged in provocative (heterosexual) antics enraged Brooklyn realtors, who threatened to file a civil suit against the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Similarly, his commission for the Port Washington post office was also scandalous and was cancelled: the mural he produced, Pocahontas and John Smith (1938), so emphasizes the buttocks and genitals of the Native Americans that it obscures the subject, which is the rescue of John Smith.

As a result of Cadmus’s notoriety, his 1937 exhibition at Midtown Galleries in New York attracted more than 7,000 visitors.

Other early works of particular interest for their homoeroticism are YMCA Locker Room (1933), Shore Leave(1933), and Greenwich Village Cafeteria (1934). Like The Fleet’s In!, these works also document homosexual cruising and seduction.

In Cadmus’s paintings, significant exchanges of glances signal sexual longing and availability, often in the very midst of mundane activities. His work documents the surreptitious cruising rituals of an urban, gay male subculture in the 1930s.

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Certaines époques ne pardonnent pas!..

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Certaines époques ne pardonnent pas!..

climbing-down-bokor: 1940s

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solsetur: Katrien de Blauwer

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7knotwind: drawings, ink on paperAntony Gormley

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drawings, ink on paper
Antony Gormley

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mucholderthen: NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATIONS from Albertus...

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NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATIONS

from Albertus Seba
Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio et Iconibus Artificiosissmis Expressio per Universam Physices Historiam

AMSTERDAM: 1734-1765

The most complete record of any of the eighteenth-century cabinets of natural history.

Albertus Seba was an apothecary in Amsterdam who became rich in the service of the Dutch East India Company. During this time the Dutch, through the Company, commanded the most extensive network of trade and colonies in the world, and it was by exploiting this that Seba managed to acquire his collection.

Accordingly, Seba gathered a vast array of specimens from Sri Lanka, Greenland, Indonesia and other far-flung places. Many specimens were South American, particularly Brazilian; these came to him via the Dutch colony in Surinam.

The present work is a catalogue of his second and grandest cabinet of natural rarities, including mammals, birds, plants, insects, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, shells, minerals and fossils.

Seba’s cabinet played an important part in Linnaeus’s classification of the natural world. … Maria Sybilla Merian made use of the cabinet in her great work on Surinamese insects.

Many of Seba’s specimens still survive in European museums.

( Sotheby’s )