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100 1 $aSherry, Michael S.,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86034908
245 10 $aGay artists in modern American culture :$ban imagined conspiracy /$cMichael S. Sherry.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a292 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-270) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : Nixon, myself, and others -- $g1.$tDiscovery -- $g2.$tExplanation -- $g3.$tFrenzy -- $g4.$tBarber at the Met -- $g5.$tAftermath.
520 1 $a"Gay men played a prominent role in defining culture in mid-twentieth-century America. Icons such as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defined much of what seemed distinctly "American." Yet their sexuality, even though few were "out," caused significant anxiety during a time of rampant antihomosexual attitudes. Michael Sherry examines the tension between the nation's dependence on and fear of the cultural influence of gay artists." "Long before gay liberation shattered public silence about homosexuality in the 1970s, says Sherry, gay people - particularly artists and entertainers - were the object of intense public interest. Most of it was hostile: the contradiction between the nation's dependence on gay men for much of its cultural development and the revulsion of many Americans toward them yielded a stream of conspiracy thinking. Sherry places conspiracy theories about the "homintern" (the homosexual international) taking control and debasing American culture within the paranoia of the time that included anticommunism, anti-Semitism, and racism." "Sherry suggests that gay conspiracy theories of this era have drawn little critical attention because they met little overt resistance at the time. He argues that gay artists helped shape a lyrical, often nationalist idea of American modernism that served the nation's ambitions to create a cultural empire and win the Cold War. Their success made them valuable to the country's cultural empire but also exposed them to rising antigay sentiment sometimes voiced at the highest levels (by President Richard Nixon, for example). Only late in the twentieth century, Sherry concludes, did suspicion slowly give way to an uneasy accommodation of gay artists' place in American life."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHomosexuality and art$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArts, American$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008423
650 0 $aHomosexuality$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105761
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006039795.html
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