ALL ABOUT SEX

«Writing in the New York Times in 2002 Holland Cotter went so far as to call Warhol the first major postwar artist to put gay identity at the very center of his work». Says Cotter:«Just by being himself, a public sissy, he automatically became one of the most important political artist of his time. For Cotter sex was a «main ingredient» of Warhol's work. He did whole series of sexually explicit paintings and took hundreds probably thousands of explicit photographs...almost exclusively of men and male sex parts...By 1964 just two years into his fame Warhol announced he was giving up painting in favor of «underground» filmmaking which he did until he was shot in 1968. Praised by critics but largely unseen by audiences many of Warhol's films were drenched in sexuality. Witness titles such as Blow Job, Taylor Mead's Ass, My Hustler and the Brokeback Mountain of 1968 Lonesome Cowboys».

-Sx
Dec 27 2007