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Curt McDowell

Curt McDowell

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Curt McDowell worked in San Francisco from the late 1960s until his death in 1987 – a period that witnessed the Summer of Love, gay liberation, and the onset of HIV/AIDS, to which he succumbed at the age of forty-two. The author of numerous films that recast the American dream of plenty in pansexual terms, McDowell, like so many artists of his generation, indulged in the era’s carnal abundance, and his appetites and experiences are reflected in his work, which alternates between the revealing and the puerile.

Known for

Taboo: The Single and the LP
It Came from Kuchar
A Reason to Live
Sparkle's Tavern
Nudes: A Sketchbook
Beaver Fever

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