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Lädt ... Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegadevon Justin Spring
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. What impressed me the most about this fine biography were the intellectual pursuits of Steward. The breadth of his knowledge mirrors the breadth of his experience in the nether world of alternative gay sex. Ultimately the author provides details and weaves them together elegantly that brings out the fascinating character that was Samuel Steward. Or should I say multiple characters, as he changed directions several times in his life. Especially interesting was his friendship with Gertrude Stein and his association with Alfred Kinsey. ( ) The amazing career of a writer who never reached his full potential because same sex relationships were not the stuff of mainstream novels for a writer born in 1909. Steward spend years as a professor of English, befriended many gay writers, such as Thornton Wilder, Gertrude Stein, Andre Gide. He kept extensive records of his own sexual activities which he shared with Dr. Kinsey. These included Rudolph Valentino while collecting an autograph in Columbus, Ohio, the future Rock Hudson when they both worked for Fields Department Store in Chicago, and Oscar Wilde's lover, the aging Lord Alfred Douglas on a trip to Europe. He lived much of his life in Chicago, where he abandoned teaching to become a tattoo artist before moving to Berkeley, California, where he became official tattooist for the Hells Angels. He never became a well known writer under his own name, but produced essays and pornography under a variety of pen names. A fascinating and rather sad life.
Spring, the author of “Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art,” speculates that Steward’s goal was to create “a single, lifelong body of work through which he hoped to demystify homosexuality for generations to come.” Given that Steward lived in an era in which so much of gay history was hidden under mattresses, shoved in the backs of bureau drawers, burnt up in ashtrays and wished away in confessional booths, his desire to document and preserve is in itself as moving as it is rare. Demystification, however, is another matter: his life turns out to have been far too sui generis to exemplify anything except the fact that so much more was going on in gay America than even most gay Americans realized. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Drawn from the secret diaries and journals of novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, this is a reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, documenting his experiences in vivid (and often very funny) detail. After leaving academe to become tattoo artist Phil Sparrow, Steward worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on his landmark sex research. During the early 1960s, Steward changed his identity once again, this time to write exceptionally literate, upbeat homosexual pornography as Phil Andros. An archive of his papers, lost since his death in 1993, has provided biographer Justin Spring with the material for an illuminating life-and-times biography. More than merely the story of one remarkable man, this is a moving portrait of gay life long before gay liberation.--From publisher description. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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