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Folk Porn: Anonymous 1940s Sex Drawings

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By (author): Anonymous

In an abandoned storage unit in Philadelphia, a collector discovered more than 150 works on paper by a presumably self-taught artist. The works fall into distinct groups--pencil drawings that are often sexual jokes, explicit watercolor scenes, and drawings on mimeograph paper. Clues to the identity of the artist and the timeframe in which the works were made are embedded in the materials. The ledger paper and safety protocol forms that presumably he used as a support bear the letterhead of the well-known Philadelphia chemical manufacturing company Rohm & Haas, established in 1909. A partially affixed mailing label on the back of one of the drawings gives a Philadelphia address and indicates foreman as the addressee. The date 1955 is written on the back of another drawing. The clothing and hairstyles depicted seem to date from the 1940s and 1950s. A search in the company's archives turns up a staff photograph from 1931 listing numerous foremen who might be the author of this erotic cache. Almost certainly made for his own personal amusement and titillation, the Philadelphia Foreman's erotic drawings are a rare and fascinating time capsule of American folk porn.-Excerpt from Mousse Magazine Folk Porn, Sexual Anxiety and American Masculinity: The Philadelphia Foreman by Alison M. Gingeras See more
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  • Dimensions: 208 x 274mm
  • Publication Date: 23 May 2024
  • Publisher: Blurring Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9798986197524

About Anonymous

Alison M. Gingeras is a curator and writer based in New York and Warsaw.  Gingeras has served as curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum the National Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou Paris and Palazzo Grassi Venice.  Currently she serves as an adjunct curator at Dallas Contemporary and a guest curator at Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami in addition to working independently. Known for her scholarly yet anarchic approach to art history Gingeras organized several groundbreaking exhibitions such as Dear Painter Paint Me: Painting the Figure Since Late Picabia at the Centre Pompidou Paris (2002) and co-curated Pop Life at the Tate Modern (2009).  Most recently she curated My Life as a Man: John Currin at Dallas Contemporary and New Images of Man at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles (Feb-March 2020). Her writing regularly appears in such periodicals as Artforum Playboy Tate Etc. Spike as well as in scores of books and exhibition catalogues.  The cult imprint Heinzfeller Nileisist recently published Totally My Ass and Other Esssaysan anthology of Gingeras writing.

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