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Gilfoyle, Timothy Joseph was born on March 24, 1956 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Daniel Gilfoyle and Mary Dorothy Norton.
( Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were ...)
Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were just some of the ways critics described the nineteenth-century weeklies that covered and publicized New York City’s extensive sexual underworld. Publications like the Flash and the Whip—distinguished by a captivating brew of lowbrow humor and titillating gossip about prostitutes, theater denizens, and sporting events—were not the sort generally bound in leather for future reference, and despite their popularity with an enthusiastic readership, they quickly receded into almost complete obscurity. Recently, though, two sizable collections of these papers have resurfaced, and in The Flash Press three renowned scholars provide a landmark study of their significance as well as a wide selection of their ribald articles and illustrations. Including short tales of urban life, editorials on prostitution, and moralizing rants against homosexuality, these selections epitomize a distinct form of urban journalism. Here, in addition to providing a thorough overview of this colorful reportage, its editors, and its audience, the authors examine nineteenth-century ideas of sexuality and freedom that mixed Tom Paine’s republicanism with elements of the Marquis de Sade’s sexual ideology. They also trace the evolution of censorship and obscenity law, showing how a string of legal battles ultimately led to the demise of the flash papers: editors were hauled into court, sentenced to jail for criminal obscenity and libel, and eventually pushed out of business. But not before they forever changed the debate over public sexuality and freedom of expression in America’s most important city.
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(City of Eros : New York City, Prostitution, and the Comme...)
City of Eros : New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 by Timothy J. Gilfoyle. W.W. Norton & Co.,1992
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( At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium P...)
At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. “Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go,” proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, “but artists really define a city.” Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an unprecedented combination of distinctive architecture, monumental sculpture, and innovative landscaping. Including structures and works by Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa, and Kathryn Gustafson, the park represents the collaborative efforts of hundreds to turn an unused railroad yard in the heart of the city into a world-class civic space—and, in the process, to create an entirely new kind of cultural philanthropy. Timothy Gilfoyle here offers a biography of this phenomenal undertaking, beginning before 1850 when the site of the park, the “city’s front yard,” was part of Lake Michigan. Gilfoyle studied the history of downtown; spent years with the planners, artists, and public officials behind Millennium Park; documented it at every stage of its construction; and traced the skeins of financing through municipal government, global corporations, private foundations, and wealthy civic leaders. The result is a thoroughly readable and lavishly illustrated testament to the park, the city, and all those attempting to think and act on a monumental scale. And underlying Gilfoyle’s history is also a revealing study of the globalization of art, the use of culture as an engine of economic expansion, and the nature of political and philanthropic power. Born out of civic idealism, raised in political controversy, and maturing into a symbol of the new Chicago, Millennium Park is truly a twenty-first-century landmark, and it now has the history it deserves.
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( Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of Amer...)
Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize.
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Gilfoyle, Timothy Joseph was born on March 24, 1956 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Daniel Gilfoyle and Mary Dorothy Norton.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1979. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1987.
Visiting professor Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1987-1988, Barnard College, New York City, 1988-1989. Assistant professor Loyola University, Chicago, 1989-1995, associate professor, 1995—2003, professor, since 2003, chair, since 2009.
( Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of Amer...)
( At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago’s Millennium P...)
(City of Eros : New York City, Prostitution, and the Comme...)
( Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were ...)
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Board directors, member Chicago Metropolitan History Fair, since 1996. Trustee, Chicago History Museum (formerly the Chicago Historical Society), 2006-present. Museum Sex., New York City.
Advisory board member Encyclopedia American Urban History, 2002-2007. Editorial Board Member, New York History, since 2004. Member American History Association (life), American Studies Association (life), Organization of America History (life), Urban History Association (life).
Married Mary Rose Alexander, August 19, 1990. Children: Maria Adele, Danielle Louise.