Unbuttoned Gay Life in the Santa Fe Arts Scene edition by Walter Cooper Arts Photography eBooks
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Where gays live, creativity thrives! For over 100 years, the Santa Fe/Taos region of Northern New Mexico has nurtured a rich gay culture, yet most people have no idea what an enormous impact lesbians and gay men play, and have played, in shaping the art and cultural mecca of the American Southwest.
Cooper’s unbridled memoir takes you behind adobe walls and plunges you into the queer world that was Santa Fe artistic life in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. It’s packed with LGBT history, camp humor, fascinating anecdotes, 80 photographs, and the author’s personal encounters with such cultural icons as Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Norman Rockwell, Buckminster Fuller, Tennessee Williams, Shirley MacLaine, and Elizabeth Taylor. But the heart of Cooper’s story spotlights the regional painters, potters, writers, poets, photographers, designers, tastemakers, and opera people he’s known and loved for 40 years.
Cooper gives voice to a dynamic LGBT community that helps make “the City Different” truly different. And who better to write an inside look at an untold story than a closeted copywriter who left a 10-year career in New York and Tokyo with advertising giant J. Walter Thompson, then bid adios to the ad biz, packed up his dreams, headed West, kicked open the closet door, and became a full-time painter and printmaker. Cooper’s artwork has been exhibited in major galleries and private and corporate collections. His work in graphic design includes book and record album covers, opera posters, wool rugs, greeting cards, and postage stamps.
As the overheated 1970s gave way to the sobering ’80s, Cooper’s candid memoir traces his journey from those high-flying years in New York and Fire Island to his new life as a painter in high-desert New Mexico during a time of great transition, when Santa Fe itself was experiencing a tectonic shift from a quaint art colony to a cultural boom town.
Written with wit and insight, Cooper describes his intimate journey of self-discovery, both as a gay man and a struggling painter. While striving to establish his own identity as a painter, he tells what it’s like to risk everything to be an artist.
“Perhaps only Walter Cooper could unfurl this marvelous, queer cavalcade that was Santa Fe in its halcyon, gay heydays, before Stonewall, before AIDS, before ‘gay pride’. Clearly, a great deal has been lost (dare we say ‘innocence’?) while much more has been gained.”
-------Jan Adlmann, art historian, author of "Contemporary Art in New Mexico."
Unbuttoned Gay Life in the Santa Fe Arts Scene edition by Walter Cooper Arts Photography eBooks
Witty and Entertaining!I loved reading about a specific time frame of Santa Fe's history. Gay life in Santa Fe plays a significant importance to Santa Fe and Unbuttoned shines a witty light on those special individuals that brought that 'importance' to the forefront of Santa Fe's charms, as well as 'unbuttoning' gay life from 30-40 years ago. Thank you Mr. Cooper for your subtle humor, your insightful stories and your thoughtful repose. I truly enjoyed your book.
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Unbuttoned Gay Life in the Santa Fe Arts Scene edition by Walter Cooper Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
I have known and loved Walter Cooper since he was a little boy. I am proud of his effort with this book which took a special kind of courage to write. And I embrace him and his Santa Fe family who have made his life here so complete.
What fun there was in the Santa Fe of not so long ago. Cooper
has a quick wit and an easy way of telling the stories, some with
decidedly off-color details. I am included in a couple of the chapters,
but there is a lot I never knew. But I do now. A great book.
Mr. Cooper's memoir, Unbuttoned Gay Life in the Santa Fe Art Scene, explores his own resolve to be an openly gay artist. He describes the journey that led him away from the constraints of the advertising industry of early 1960’s Manhattan to a more open and accepting Santa Fe artist community. The community he discovers includes rich mix of artist mentors and friends whose names and reputations readers will recognize. He tells his story with humor and charm.
One of the most poignant dimensions of Cooper’s memoir is the described tension artists must manage between creating work that documents or reflects one’s exploration or understanding of the world and work that serves the purely commercial demands of galleries. However successful an artist may be in managing those tensions, Cooper is clear that it is our relationships with each other that sustain us and endures.
A nice background to the present life in Santa February. Are we all so connected? Thought provoking.
this book is the tangible result of a long labor of love. in "unbuttoned", cooper tells his story with clarity and truth. it is both poignant and uproariously funny. he grew up in a time when any manifestation of homosexuality was disdained (even punished) by society as a whole, the government, and the church. he tells us how, on reaching adulthood, he courageously came to accept himself and revealed his true nature to one and all. he weaves this struggle into a time line concurrent with the evolution of a serious contemporary art awakening in santa fe. so...the book is part memoir, part art history, and all engrossing. it is a significant historical document for his generation's review and a an encouragement for future generations of you gay artists.
Reading Walter Cooper's memoir and recollections of Santa Fe in his latest book, "Unbuttoned Gay Life in the Santa Fe Arts Scene," is almost as good as being there. "Unbuttoned" chronicles life in the 1970's and 80's, when, as Walter says in the introduction, "Santa Fe's nurturing environment made everything seem possible." Whether you're LGB or T, or even just an ordinary heterosexual, you'll love this book. It's funny, fun, and filled with a nostalgic longing for the Santa Fe many of us knew and loved. Walter's keen memory for the smallest details will keep you intrigued as you get to peek into the private lives of so many New Mexico icons of the art world, including Walter himself. His writing is refreshingly honest. His wry wit and colorful turn of phrase are sure to keep you entertained. And the photos included in this book are treasures of a significant period in Santa Fe's history.
Gay life in Santa Fe? Well, I’m straight and I don’t live there. But I laughed and at the same time admired Walter Cooper’s engaging story of a world apart from my own. This is not only a history of Santa Fe’s artistic life from the 70’s on; it is a candid, honest, and funny account of the creative people who built this city’s personality. I would describe Cooper’s own “unbuttoned” memoir of gay life as wholesome - I’m not kidding.
Add funny. He’s the kind of gay guy you want to get to know.
Witty and Entertaining!
I loved reading about a specific time frame of Santa Fe's history. Gay life in Santa Fe plays a significant importance to Santa Fe and Unbuttoned shines a witty light on those special individuals that brought that 'importance' to the forefront of Santa Fe's charms, as well as 'unbuttoning' gay life from 30-40 years ago. Thank you Mr. Cooper for your subtle humor, your insightful stories and your thoughtful repose. I truly enjoyed your book.
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