Eccentric Modernisms: Creating Queer Culture

Art historian Tirza True Latimer presents her new book, "Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art" (University of California Press, 2017), which traces the networks of cosmopolitan eccentrics who made space in America in the 1930s and 1940s for what we would today call queer culture.

The book focuses on gay men who formed Gertrude Stein's circle of support, including painter Pavel Tchelitchew, composer Virgil Thompson and writer Charles Henri Ford. These artists and others collaborated in distinctively queer ways across national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries to form artistic and intellectual communities.

Latimer is an associate professor and chair of the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She will be interviewed by James Voorhies, dean of fine arts at CCA.

LOCATION
The GLBT History Museum
4127 18th St., San Francisco
www.glbthistory.org/museum

ADMISSION
$5.00; free for members

ABOUT THE BOOK
Copies of "Eccentric Modernisms" will be available for the author to sign at the event. To learn more about the book, visit the publisher's website:

www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520288867