Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection

by Thomas Waugh

 

Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection

Thomas Waugh

Arsenal Pulp Press

 

 

Like its predecessor, Out/lines: Vintage Gay Graphics from Before Stonewall, Thomas Waugh’s new book, Lust Unearthed, is a look at the “naughty” images, which populated the fantasies of numerous artists, in a time when the act of putting these images on paper was absolutely brave.

The images in Lust Unearthed come from a single collection, that of Ambrose DuBek, a Hollywood set and costume designer, a gay man living in an era of criminalized sodomy and McCarthyism. Lust Unearthed draws for us a portrait of this man and the life he risked.

”The once-risky images have never before been published, and the work includes both known and unknown artists. Once illegal, now in the light of day, these images are both historically significant and erotically delightful.” - Out Magazine.

(as published in Family & Friends Magazine, January 2005)