Sentences with phrase «emerging gay culture»

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23 As Jones and Jonathan D. Katz have convincingly argued, silence emerged as Cage's primary means of countering the fervently expressive, highly individualistic machismo associated with Abstract Expressionism.24 It was a construct that gave him room to act independently as an artist in a world dominated by the abstract expressionist paradigm and to create space for himself as a gay man in the atmosphere of homophobia that permeated postwar American culture.