This book documents a moment in the history of American culture - a period in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s that gave birth to new notions of male beauty and desire, and to a new type of male icon. Long before Stonewall and the gay pride movement, there was a small group of men - both photographers and the models who sat for them - who helped pave the way for male sexual liberation. Led by the photographer George Platt Lynes, the painter Paul Cadmus, and the arts patron Lincoln Kirstein, this group shattered taboos surrounding the artistic presentation of the male figure.
- ISBN10 0789300796
- ISBN13 9780789300799
- Publish Date 15 June 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 August 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rizzoli International Publications
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English