Inventing the Gay Gaze

Jack J Fritscher, Mark Hemry

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Palm Drive Publishing
20 June 2025

Individual artists, art monographs; Portraits in art; Individual photographers; Individual architects & architectural firms; Biography: general

Series: Profiles in Gay Courage

Historian Jack Fritscher's newest book, Inventing the Gay Gaze: Rex, Peter Berlin, Arthur Tress, and Crawford Barton, is the third volume in his award-winning series Profiles in Gay Courage showcasing twentieth-century artists speaking to the twenty-first century in this revealing book of lively annotated oral-history interviews as enjoyable as heart-to-heart conversations in an artist's private atelier.

The artist Rex drawing his pointillist pictures, and the three photographers, Berlin, Tress, and Barton, speak for themselves inventing their own authentic queer eye during the Stonewall 1970s dominated by the politically-correct gaze of censors, and by the influence of their common frenemy Robert Mapplethorpe whose spirit infuses this boundary-breaking book.

Eyewitness Fritscher has known these artists since the 1970s when as editor-in-chief of Drummer magazine, he first published their pioneering work. He canonizes his iconic friends by curating their specific avant-garde histories within the context of mainstream gay history that readers will find informative and entertaining.

In four unfiltered conversations, he profiles the reclusive anarchist Rex who designated him to hear his deathbed confession. In his chat with photographer Peter Berlin, celebrating Berlin's 80th birthday, Berlin details how his camera-eye created his strutting alter-ego. In dialogue with ethnographic photographer Arthur Tress, Tress explains using the magical realism of midcentury modernism to develop his unique perspective. In his tête-à-tête visit with the dying Crawford Barton, the key photographer of 1970s Castro Street, Barton recalls escaping the homophobic American South to document diversities of men in San Francisco.

For art lovers, LGBTQ+ archives, book groups.

By: Jack J Fritscher
Edited by: Mark Hemry
Imprint: Palm Drive Publishing
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9781890834739
ISBN 10: 1890834734
Series: Profiles in Gay Courage
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

65+ Years as a Published Novelist, Journalist, Photographer, Videographer, Tenured University Professor, Arts Critic, Historian, and Award-Winning Writer. Specialist in American Literature, Creative Writing, Criticism, and American Pop Culture, including the History of Masculine-Identified Gay Pop Culture

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Inventing the Gay Gaze

Jack J Fritscher, Mark Hemry

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