{"product_id":"the-young-and-evil-jarrett-earnest-9781644230268","title":"The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York, 1930-1955","description":"\u003cb\u003eLauded by Jerry Saltz as \"one of the most reactionary yet radical visions of art,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Young and Evil\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a group of artists and writers active during the first half of the twentieth century, when homosexuality was as problematic for American culture as figuration was for modernist painting.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese artists--including Paul Cadmus, Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein, Charles Henri Ford, Jared French, Margaret Hoening French, George Platt Lynes, Bernard Perlin, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Alexander Jensen Yow, and their circle--were new social creatures, playfully and boldly homosexual at a time when it was both criminalized and pathologized. They pursued a modernism of the body--driven by eroticism and bounded by intimacy, forming a hothouse world within a world that doesn't nicely fit any subsequent narrative of modern American art. In their work, they looked away from abstraction toward older sources and models--classical and archaic forms of figuration and Renaissance techniques. What might be seen as a reactionary aesthetic maneuver was made in the service of radical content--endeavoring to depict their own lives. Their little-known history is presented here through never-before-exhibited photographs, sculptures, drawings, ephemera, and rarely seen major paintings--offering the first view of its kind into their interwoven intellectual, artistic, and personal lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Edited by Jarrett Earnest, who also curated the exhibition, \u003ci\u003eThe Young and Evil \u003c\/i\u003efeatures new scholarship by art historians Ann Reynolds and Kenneth E. Silver and an interview with Alexander Jensen Yow by Michael Schreiber.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jarrett Earnest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644230267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644230268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e David Zwirner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.80h x 9.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Jarrett Earnest","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43937134379263,"sku":"9781644230268","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_35ef8dcd-7d85-4d60-aa62-2d76c4b0c955.jpg?v=1681428421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-young-and-evil-jarrett-earnest-9781644230268","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}