OTHER


In this group, artists express the longing of unrequited love: the objects of their intense desires remain alluring yet perpetually distant. Whether the other is a star like Madonna, a fashion model, or an image of erotic perfection, such attraction must bridge a social chasm that would be difficult for anyone to cross but which is made especially impassable for homosexuals because of proscriptions against same-sex desire.

Here, desire for the other is often imagined in terms of a totem or fetish. Totemic works, such as Millie Wilson's Daytona Death Angel or Marsden Hartley's Cascade of Devotion: Mexico, present a singular and monumental object or image which, in its isolated glory suggests something perfect and unattainable. Fetish-like works, such as Karen Kilimnick's Madonna Before She Got Famous - Madonna at Home or Richard Hawkin's Goethe's Italian Journey, capture the other with just ephemeral suggestions of their presence.


Marsden Hartley
Cascade of Devotion - Mexico, 1932
Oil on panel
13x15"
Gift of Bertha Schaefer

Robert Indiana
The Hartley Elegy: Berlin Series KvF V, 1990
Screenprint
76,1/4x53,3/8"
Courtesy Park Granada Editions

Glenn Ligon
Narratives (Plate G), 1993
Etching with chine colle
28x21"
Courtesy Max Protetch Gallery

Roni Horn
When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes - No.1027, 1993
Plastic and aluminum
2x2xvariable lengths up to 72"
Courtesy of the artist and the Matthew Marks Gallery

Zoe Leonard
Frontal View, Geoffrey Beene Fashion Show, 1990
B&W photograph, A/P
40x30"
Gift of Elaine McKeon

The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers, 1974, Album cover (design by Andy Warhol), Private collection

Romaine Brooks, United States, 1874-1970, Peter (A Young English Girl), 1923-24, Oil on canvas, 36-1/3 x 24-1/2", Lent by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist

Patti Smith, Horses, 1975, Album cover, (photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe)

Pavel Tchelitchew, France, born Moscow, 1898-1957, Le Collier des Roses, 1931, Oil on board, 23-1/4 x 20-7/8", Private collection

Tony Greene, United States, 1955-1990, The Grain of His Skin, 1987, Oil on panel, 13 x 15", Private collection

The Smiths, The Smiths, 1984, Album cover, Private collection

Donald Moffett, United States, born 1955, You, You, You, 1990, Cibatransparency in lightbox, 38 x 84 x 6", Lent by Andrew F. Sie

Karen Kilimnik, United States, born 1962, Madonna Before She Got Famous -- Madonna at Home, 1991, Mixed media, Dimensions variable, Lent by Karen and Andy Stillpass and 303 Gallery

Robert Gober, United States, born 1954, Newspaper, 1992, Photolithography on archival paper, twine, ed. AP, Approx: 6 x 16-1/4 x 13-1/4", Gift of the artist

Marcel Duchamp, France, 1887-1968, The Bride Stripped by Her Bachelors, Even, 1915-1923, Collection Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Color reproduction in Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers NY, 2nd Revised Edition 1970, Private collection

Kathy Huberland, Bridal Staircase, 1971, Black and white reproduction in Womanhouse, 1971, exhibition catalogue, Lent by Moira Roth

Connie Samaras, United States, born 1960, Alien Head - First Mass Produced U.S. Image (from a Partial Correction to the Representation of Earth Culture Sent Out to Extraterrestrials on the 1977 U.S. Voyager Interstellar Space Probes, 1994, Photograph, 30 x 30", Courtesy of the artist

David Bowie, Aladdin Sane, 1973, Album cover, Private collection

Richard Hawkins, United States, born 1961, Goethe's Italian Journey, 1990, Mixed media, 9 x 6 x 1-1/4", Courtesy of the artist and Richard Telles Fine Art

Brains, The Journal of Egghead Sexuality, Volume 1, No. 1, Summer 1990, 'Zine, Private collection

Physique Pictorial, No. 40, June 1987, 'Zine, Private collection

Bound & Gagged, Erotic Adventures in Male Bondage, No. 18, September/October 1990, 'Zine, Private collection

Hippie Dick!, No. 5, 1993, 'Zine, Private Collection

Bear, No. 6, 1988, 'Zine, Private Collection

Steve Wolfe, United States, born Italy, 1955, Hollywood Babylon, 1993, Gold-plated bronze and oil paint, 10-1/2 x 7", Lent by Pablo and Leslie Lawner

Paul Pfeiffer, United States, born 1966, Ninos Repulsivos, 1994, Five hand-cast resin statues, plaster, various objects, 12 x 5 x 3" each, Courtesy of the artist, Luis Francia, Martin Manalansan, Rupert Manalili, and John Pfeiffer

Millie Wilson, United States, born 1948, Daytona Death Angel, 1994, Synthetic hair, wood, chrome, 66 x 36 x 24", Courtesy of the artist and Jose Freire Fine Art, Inc. and Ruth Bloom Gallery

Joel Otterson, United States, born 1959, Bowie Knife Bat, about 1984, Mixed media, Approx: 100 x 11 x 11", Lent by Anne Livet



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