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Show Us Life (1989)
Hard to Imagine (1996)
The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema (2000)
Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics from Before Stonewall (2002)
-- Finalist, 2002 Lambda Literary Award for Photography/Visual Arts AwardsLust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection (2004) -- Finalist Lambda Literary 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Photography/Visual Arts Awards
More than 200, never-before-published images from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek, a Hollywood costume and set designer (his work included George Cukor's 1939 film The Women) who died in 2002 at the age of 87, and whose estate included a wealth of erotic materials, including books, periodicals, prints, and films. DuBek was a passionate advocate and patron of the arts who felt that life and the body were to be celebrated; he had no patience for other people's attempts to make him feel guilty for his attractions and desires, nor any qualms about the different worlds in which he operated. The images from DuBek's collection published here are remarkably frank and explicit depictions of gay men "in action" created by numerous artists both famous and unknown, and produced during a time when even nude images of men were illegal, and thus rare. Lust Unearthed brings these images out of the boxes in which they were carefully kept and into the light of present-day, where expressions of gay male sexuality can be validated and indeed, celebrated.
See also:
Arousing Sensation: A Case Study of Controversy Surrounding Art and the Erotic (1999) by Sylvie Gilbert
This publication was developed following a controversial exhibit that appeared at the Walter Phillips Gallery in 1992. In Much Sense: Erotics and Life, the artists explored ideas about sexuality, expressing frank viewpoints on topics such as body image and gay and lesbian sexuality. In the months following the opening, politicians, the media, and coalitions of arts organizations engaged in a rancorous debate, alternately battering and boosting The Banff Centre and its support of the exhibition. Arousing Sensation supports freedom of expression for both sides of the controversy, with full text media clippings chronicling a public debate about freedom of expression, funding for the arts, censorship, sexuality, political responsibility, and journalistic integrity. The book offers a unique case study of the role the media plays in public debates.