Pop Out: Queer Warhol

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Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory. Yet even though Warhol became the star of postmodernism, avant-garde, and pop culture, this collection of essays is the first to explore, analyze, appreciate, and celebrate the role of Warhol’s queerness in the making and reception of his film and art. Ranging widely in approach and discipline, Pop Out demonstrates that to ignore Warhol’s queerness is to miss what is most valuable, interesting, sexy, and political about his life and work. Written from the perspectives of art history, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, cinema studies, and social and literary theory, these essays consider Warhol in various contexts and within the history of the communities in which he figured. The homoerotic subjects, gay audiences, and queer contexts that fuel a certain fascination with Warhol are discussed, as well as Batman, Basquiat, and Valerie Solanas. Taken together, the essays in this collection depict Warhol’s career as a practical social reflection on a wide range of institutions and discourses, including those, from the art world to mass culture, that have almost succeeded in sanitizing his work and his image. Contributors. Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, Marcie Frank, David E. James, Mandy Merck, Michael Moon, José Esteban Muñoz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Brian Selsky, Sasha Torres, Simon Watney, Thomas Waugh Contents ......Page 6 Acknowledgments ......Page 8 Introduction - Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, Jose Esteban Munoz ......Page 12 Queer Andy - Simon Watney ......Page 31 I'll Be Your Mirror Stage: Andy Warhol in the Cultural Imaginary - David E. James ......Page 42 Cockteaser - Thomas Waugh ......Page 62 Screen Memories, or, Pop Comes from the Outside: Warhol and Queer Childhood - Michael Moon......Page 89 Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopoeia - Jonathan Flatley ......Page 112 Queer Performativity: Warhol's Shyness/Warhol's Whiteness - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ......Page 145 Famous and Dandy Like B. 'n' Andy: Race, Pop, and Basquiat - Jose Esteban Munoz ......Page 155 "I Dream of Genius. . ." - Brian Selsky ......Page 191 Tricks of the Trade: Pop Art/Pop Sex - Jennifer Doyle ......Page 202 Popping Off Warhol: From the Gutter to the Underground and Beyond - Marcie Frank ......Page 221 Figuring Out Andy Warhol - Mandy Merck ......Page 235 The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series - Sasha Torres ......Page 249 Bibliography ......Page 268 Contributors ......Page 278 Index ......Page 280