Gavin ButtBetween You and Me
Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: Gossip: The Hardcore of Art History? 1
1. The American Artist in a World of Suspicion 23
2. Idol Gossip: Myths of Genius and the Making of Queer Worlds 51
3. The Gift of Gab: Camp Talk and the Art of Larry Rivers 74
4. Dishing on the Swish, or, the “Inning” of Andy Warhol 106
5. Bodies of Evidence: Queering Disclosure in the Art of Jasper Johns 136
Afterword: Flirting with an Ending 163
Notes 167
Bibliography 189
Index 201
