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I just finished this book last night. It ends oddly, but it’s another must read.
Speaking for Vice
Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Gardeby Jonathan Weinberg
“There is a crusade against vice in Lancaster … I am going home to speak for vice.” — Charles Demuth
Demuth’s ironic response to the news that a vice investigation was underway in Lancaster in the early-teens provides the title and epigraph to Jonathan Weinberg’s pioneering exploration of homosexuality in American modernist art. He focuses on the paintings of Charles Demuth and of his friend and fellow member of the Stieglitz Circle Marsden Hartley, showing the many ways in which the homosexual culture of the years between the wars informs their work and that of other artists.
