Outlaw Representation by Richard Meyer by Richard Meyer

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002-01-17. Second impression of the First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 376 pages. Text by Richard Meyer. Includes some color and black and white illustrations. A close to near fine copy with some slight bumping to the corners in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good. 376 pp., illustrations, notes, biblio., index. Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was at the center of a controversy that erupted in the late 1980s over the federal funding of "obscene" art and, perhaps not so paradoxically, found his fame and stature enhanced. As Meyer demonstrates, Mapplethorpe is hardly the first or last artist to depict homoerotic desire who has had to deal with the suppression of art, nor to experience its consequent recirculation. Mirroring Michel Foucault's concept of reverse discourse (from his, Meyer argues that the regulation of homosexuality and homosexual art has often provoked unanticipated responses and counter-representations). He chronologically examines censorship of 20th century homosexual art in America and the results of censorship attempts. The text is illustrated by some 200 reproductions of the artwork in question. Contents: The Red Envelope: On Censorship and… Read More

Oxford University Press, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine.

Oxford University Press, 2002-01-17. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. Larger Octavo; pp 376; VG-/VG-; blue pictorial spine with white text; dust jacket show lightly sunned exterior; cloth has lightly sunned tail edge; minor wear to corners; strong boards; text block has minimal wear to exterior edges; interior clean; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; arts - American; Modern. 1333974. FP New Rockville Stock.