{"title":"Queer Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition ephemera, printed matter, and documents from exhibitions and projects engaging with queer identity, history, and cultural production.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gay-bronx-council-on-the-arts-longwood-arts-project-2014","title":"GAY — Bronx Council on the Arts \/ Longwood Arts Project, New York, 2014","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition announcement card \/ offset print on card stock \/ full colour \/ double-sided\u003cbr\u003eApprox. postcard dimensions\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good; light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with age and circulation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn original exhibition card issued for \u003cem\u003eGAY\u003c\/em\u003e, a group exhibition at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, New York, examining shifts in identity through the cultural production of gay male artists of color across the period 2003–2013. Organised by Ivan Monforte and presented by the Bronx Council on the Arts and Longwood Arts Project, the exhibition brought together an intergenerational and multidisciplinary group of artists including David Antonio Cruz, Steve Locke, Jacolby Satterwhite, Rafael Melendez, and others working across painting, performance, video, photography, and installation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recto reproduces a lush wooded stream landscape interrupted by the word \u003cem\u003egay\u003c\/em\u003e rendered in thin lowercase white typography — image and text held in quiet tension. The reverse shifts from image to administration: exhibition dates (5 February–7 May 2014), public programming, panel discussions, screenings, community events, and an advisory notice regarding mature content. Infrastructure becomes part of the printed surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a The New Rare reading, the object functions as retained institutional material rather than simple promotion. It compresses a larger cultural moment into portable form. The exhibition survives here not as installation but as a circulation object: image on one side, infrastructure on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53568994115922,"sku":"GAY-LONGWOOD-INV-2014","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Antoini_Cruz_David._Henry_Imani._Locke_Steven._Show_invite_Gay_._2014_front.jpg?v=1779740245"},{"product_id":"kathy-acker-hannibal-lecter-my-father-1991","title":"Kathy Acker — Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKathy Acker, \u003cem\u003eHannibal Lecter, My Father\u003c\/em\u003e. New York: Semiotext(e), Native Agents Series, 1991. Paperback. 148 pp. 11 × 18 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Good.\u003c\/strong\u003e Light foxing to the front pages, minor shelf wear and handling marks to covers, binding sound, text clean overall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA first edition of one of Kathy Acker's most provocative late works, published by Semiotext(e)'s influential Native Agents series. Combining autobiography, appropriation, literary theft, pornography, criticism, and fiction, \u003cem\u003eHannibal Lecter, My Father\u003c\/em\u003e occupies the territory Acker spent her career constructing: a space where authorship becomes unstable and identity is assembled from borrowed parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover itself announces the book's central strategy: \u003cem\u003eThis writing is all fake (copied from other writing) so you should go away and not read any of it.\u003c\/em\u003e It functions as both warning and manifesto. By 1991, Acker had already become one of the defining figures of experimental American writing, openly incorporating and rewriting texts by authors ranging from Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson to Georges Bataille. Plagiarism, in her hands, became method rather than transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also sits within a broader history of literary impersonation and appropriation. Acker famously wrote her own promotional endorsement for an earlier publication and attributed it to French novelist and theorist Alain Robbe-Grillet, collapsing the distinction between author, critic, and publicity machine. That gesture echoes throughout this volume, where originality is treated less as a virtue than as a fiction maintained by institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued by Semiotext(e) during a period when the press was introducing radical theory, experimental literature, and countercultural writing to American readers, this remains one of Acker's most sought-after titles from the Native Agents series. The striking pink cover, portrait photograph, and confrontational text have made it one of the most recognizable editions associated with her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn important document from a writer whose influence extends well beyond literature into contemporary art, appropriation practices, feminist writing, and questions of authorship that continue to resonate today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53612098847058,"sku":"ACKER-SEMIOTEXTE-CAT-1991","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_-Kathy.-Hannibal-Lecter_-My-Father-cover.jpg?v=1780250309"},{"product_id":"kathy-acker-adult-life-toulouse-lautrec-1978","title":"Kathy Acker — The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1978)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKathy Acker, \u003cem\u003eThe Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec\u003c\/em\u003e. New York: TVRT Press \/ Printed Matter, 1978. Softcover. 201 pp. 11.5 × 16.5 cm. Offset printed wrappers with black-and-white cover image. Drawings by William Wegman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Good.\u003c\/strong\u003e Light marking, rubbing, age wear, and surface scuffing to covers. Interior pages clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly Kathy Acker title, first issued through TVRT Press and Printed Matter in 1978. The book gathers Acker's serial project into a complete paperback edition, using false authorship, biography, plagiarism, sexuality, and literary cut-up as material. Published before her wider 1980s recognition, it belongs to the downtown New York context around artists' books, performance, punk writing, and Printed Matter's early distribution network.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcker takes Toulouse-Lautrec less as subject than as borrowed structure. The artist's name becomes a mask; biography becomes fiction; the book becomes an unstable printed support for authorship under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TVRT Press \/ Printed Matter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53612177981778,"sku":"ACKER-TVRT-CAT-1978","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_Kathy._The_Adult_Life_of_Toulouse_Lautrec_by_Henri_Toulouse_Lautrec._1978_front.jpg?v=1780251415"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/queer-art.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}