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Outlaw Representation: Censorship & Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Ideologies of Desire)
Author: Richard Meyer
Binding: Paperback
Published: 01 January, 2004
ISBN: 0807079359
$17.00
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Outlaw Representation: Censorship & Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Ideologies of Desire)
by: Richard Meyer
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.1 / 5.0 
A book for anyone interested in art, politics or freedom: 
This book is genius and amazing. Read it right now.
Brilliant, ground-breaking work:
This is an amazing book, rich in detail and images, but also exploring with passion and intensity a border between queer studies, art history, and cultural studies. It demonstrates an astonishing command of the social and political history of the period it covers, along with theoretical depth and great sophistication in the reading and analysis of visual materials. I was mesmerized. Written beautifully, this book makes its erudition appear effortless, but in fact it is an extremely courageous and innovative... more info
Rather disappointing: 
I must say that the reader from Cambridge, whose review appears below, seems to me to have it right. Certainly, the book is well-illustrated, well-researched, and readable. But analytically, whether understood as art history or cultural criticism, this book offers very little. Meyer does us a service by collecting these images and placing them next to each other, but his observations about the consequences of censorship struck me as quite banal, and predictable to such a degree that you must wonder whether... more info
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