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The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life Of Peter Hujar And Paul Thek
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As Official Narratives Everywhere Strain And Crack, Peter And PaulAnd DurbinOffer A Desperately Needed Alternative Way Of Seeing And Being. Benjamin Moser, Author Of Susan Sontag: Her Life And Work, Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize[Andrew Durbin] Has Made Of These Lives And These Times A JamPacked Poem In Prose. ItS Like A Trip With These Guys, Without Pulling Tight At The Ending, Just Death. Eileen Myles, Author Of A Working LifeThe Cinematic, NeverBeforeTold Story Of Two Intimately Entangled Artists Who Redefined Queer Art.When Paul Thek Met Peter Hujar In The Winter Of 1956 In Coral Gables, Florida, A SlowSimmering Connection Began To Burn. Thek, TwentyThree And Living In Miami, Was Handsome And Itching To Make It As A Painter; In The TwentyTwoYearOld Hujar, A Shy, Sensual Photographer, HeD Found A Kindred Spirit. By 1960, They Were Dating And Living In New York, Beginning Decades Of Sex, Love, Competition, And ReconciliationAn Entanglement That Changed American Art Forever.Surrounded By A Robust Creative Scene Populated By Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, Fran Lebowitz, John Waters, And David Wojnarowicz, Thek And HujarS Profoundly Influential Careers, From The Early 1960S Through The Late 1980S, Differed As Much As The Men Themselves. The Unpredictable And Often Overlooked Thek Crafted Visceral Installations And Sculptures, While Hujar, Celebrated And Sociable, Took Penetrating Portraits Of His World, Queer And Otherwise. Yet Even At Their Most Estranged, And Even After Their Deaths From Aids, Both Men Were United By A Pursuit Of LiberationFrom Artistic And Sexual Limits, From Anything Short Of Changing The World.Andrew DurbinS The Wonderful World That Almost Was Unravels, For The First Time, The Intertwined Stories And Work Of Two Boundaryburning, ParadigmTilting, Never More Relevant American Artists. Weaving Together Deft Art Criticism With Moving Portraits Of Both MenS Inner Lives, And Assembled With Exhaustive Research, DurbinS Book Is An Ode To A Lost But StillLiving WorldAnd Two Men Who Defined It.
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