![]() In the first a man lights a cigarette for a sailor in the second Querelle strangles the Armenian pederast in the third Querelle is penetrated by the bartender husband of Madame Lysiane. Working form Polaroid photographs taken of himself in various poses, Steward fashioned three scratchboard illustrations for the story. Spring writes: "Noteworthy among Steward's many illustrations for Der Kries is one that was originally created for Steward's 1951- 1952 English language translation of Querelle de Brest. ![]() Kinsey and also in the rare anthology of homoerotic art published by Der Kries in 1960 Der Mann in der Zeichnung (under one of Steward's pseudonyms, Philip von Chicago). During Steward's lifetime the "Lucky Strike" image was published in the Zurich-based Der Kries, an early homophile publication introduced to Steward by Dr. And, his sexual activities increasingly involved sadomasochism, in which he had always been interested All three of these drawings were reproduced in "An Obscene Diary: The Visual World of Sam Steward" (Antonius Press/ Elysium Press 2010). He turned his artistic energies to tattooing, operating parlors catering to naval and military servicemen, in Chicago, Milwaukee and finally Oakland. Steward's pursuit of "serious" literary expression ebbed, and later in the 1960s, under the pseudonym Phil Andros, he authored a series of gay paperback novels (STUD, The Greek Way, etc.), regarded as the most literate of homoerotic fiction, featuring his alter-ego hustler. When it became clear to Steward that Genet was disinterested, he dropped the project: these three scratchboards the art he he created for it. Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after writing several commercially unsuccessful books, Steward attempted mid-life, in the early 1950s, to seek approval from Jean Genet to publish his own English translation-with his own original illustrations - of Querelle de Brest. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries, journals, photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail (and which he shared with Kinsey). Toklas, associations with George Platt Lynes, Glenway Wescott and other literati, and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. The life of Sam Steward (1909 - 1983), the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professsor Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "(Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2010), took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one, which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. ![]() Compellingly readable and often unexpectedly funny, this newly discovered story of a gay life full of wildly improbable-but nonetheless true-events is destined to become a landmark queer autobiography from the twentieth century.Three scratchboards, two 12'x 15", the other 16" x 12", depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. The product of a rigorous line-by-line comparison of these two sources and a thoughtful editing of their contents, Mulderig’s thoroughly annotated text is more complete and coherent than either source alone while also remaining faithful to Steward’s style and voice, to his engaging self-deprecation and his droll sense of humor. In The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward, Jeremy Mulderig has integrated Steward’s truncated published text with the text of the original manuscript to create the first extended version of Steward’s autobiography to appear in print-the first sensational, fascinating, and ultimately enlightening story of his many lives told in his own words. But after finishing a 110,000-word draft in 1979, Steward lost interest in the project and subsequently published only a slim volume of selections from his manuscript. The story of this life would undoubtedly have been a sensation if it had reached publication. And, as a compulsive record keeper, he had maintained a meticulous card-file index throughout his life that documented his 4,500 sexual encounters with more than 800 men. Steward had also moved in the circles of Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, and Alfred Kinsey, among many other notable figures of the twentieth century. ![]() No one but his closest friends knew the many different identities he had performed during his life: as Samuel Steward, he had been a popular university professor of English as Phil Sparrow, an accomplished tattoo artist as Ward Stames, John McAndrews, and Donald Bishop, a prolific essayist in the first European gay magazines as Phil Andros, the author of a series of popular pornographic gay novels during the 1960s and 1970s. On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909–93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. ![]()
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