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Hugh Steers : the complete paintings, 1983-1994 / essays by Dale Peck, Cynthia Carr, and James Smalls.

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Hugh Steers : the complete paintings, 1983-1994 / essays by Dale Peck, Cynthia Carr, and James Smalls.
Author
Steers, Hugh, 1962-1995
Publication
  • New York, NY : Visual AIDS, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Peck, Dale
  • Carr, C.
  • Smalls, James, 1958-
  • Visual AIDS (Organization) issuing body.
Description
247 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
"Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings is the first publication on the career of American figurative painter Hugh Steers (1962-95), who died of AIDS at the age of 32. Committed to figurative painting at a time when it had fallen out of favor, Steers painted expressionist-realist narratives of a life shadowed by isolation and mortality, yet infused with wry humor, camp and what Steers himself called a 'gorgeous bleakness.' Steers consciously merged AIDS, intimacy and the body into the traditional vocabulary of painting. With his vulnerable subjects depicted in hospital rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, Steers engaged with radical ideas about male intimacy, queer politics, fragility and health care at the height of the AIDS crisis. Featuring more than 600 full-color images of Steers' paintings on canvas and paper, this volume provides a long-overdue, expansive view of the artist's career and impact."--Amazon.com.
Alternative Title
Complete paintings, 1983-1994
Subject
  • art Steers, Hugh, 1962-1995
  • Steers, Hugh, 1962-1995
  • Steers, Hugh, 1962-1995 > Catalogues raisonnés
  • Gay men in art > Catalogs
  • AIDS (Disease) in art > Catalogs
  • Konstnärer
  • Biografier
  • Förenta staterna
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs
  • Catalogues raisonnés
Note
  • "Catalogue raisonné of paintings"--Pages 181-238.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface / Nelson Santos -- Introduction / Dale Peck -- "...as if painting it will make it become real" : a life of Hugh Steers / Cynthia Carr -- The soft glow of brutality / James Smalls -- Plates -- Catalogue raisonné of paintings -- Exhibition history.
ISBN
  • 9780967842561
  • 0967842565
OCLC
  • 933719816
  • SCSB-10045315
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library