$24.15 general / $21.00 members
from Against Nature: A Show by Homosexual Men, LACE (1988)

About Against Nature: A Show by Homosexual Men
Curators Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins' show looked at decadent seclusion and syphilitic deterioration as modes of social rebellion and was informed by J.K. Huysmans' novel À Rebours. This exhibition exposed the margins of the already marginalized world of gay men. The curators translated Huysmans through the lens of AIDS in a politically and socially conservative era, and displayed rich, decadent and inherently morbid work. They reacted against aesthetics that seemed polemically overwrought, privileging activism over the individual.

This catalog was made possible in part by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles.

Against Nature: general $24.15 Against Nature: member $21.00