Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles DeMuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde.

From: Art in America | Date: April 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde, by Jonathan Weinberg, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1993; 260 pages, $40.

It is often hard to remember today that homosexual love once dared not speak its name. Plays featuring gay themes now frequently occupy Broadway and Off-Broadway stages, and homosexuality is prominently featured in the visual arts as well. And yet only a few decades ago such matters could not be mentioned openly, much less made explicit in the content of art works. Jonathan ...

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