Queer / edited by David J. Getsy.
Series: Documents of contemporary art: Publisher: London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2016Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43601ISBN: 9780854882427 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Homosexuality and the arts | Homosexuality and art | Homosexuality in art | Artists' writings | Art and DesignDDC classification: 306.766 QUE LOC classification: NX180.H6 | Q44 2016Summary: Historically 'queer' was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, this negative speech act was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honour. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity. Artists who identify their practices as queer today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships and relationships. This is the first anthology to bring together artist's writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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306.766 MAD Fags, hags and queer sisters : gender dissent and heterosocial bonds in gay culture / | 306.766 PAR A Little Gay History : Desire and Diversity across the World | 306.766 PIL A queer little history of art / | 306.766 QUE Queer / | 306.766 ROU The Routledge queer studies reader / | 306.766 WOO Homintern : | 306.7662 TOD Straight jacket : overcoming society's legacy of gay shame / |
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Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies . There has never been an anthology of artists' writings like Queer. It is an antidote to assimilation, a call for radical creativity, and a recipe for artistic revolution. - Richard Meyer, Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University Rather than a book of queer theory for artists, this is a book of artists' queer tactics and infectious concepts. In the first such anthology to be centred on artists' writings, numerous conversations about queer practice are brought together from diverse individual, social and cultural contexts. Together these texts describe and examine the ways in which artists have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action, and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference. Artists surveyed include: Nayland Blake, Gregg Bordowitz, Leigh Bowery, AA Bronson, AK Burns, Giuseppe Campuzano, Tee Corinne, Barbara DeGenevieve, Dyke Action Machine!, Elmgreen & Dragset, Nicole Eisenman, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Simon Fujiwara, Malik Gaines, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Sunil Gupta, Hahn Thi Pham, Harmony Hammond, Sharon Hayes, Hudson, Roberto Jacoby, Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, Mahmoud Khaled, Zoe Leonard, Lesbian Avengers, Catherine Lord, Ma Liuming, LTTR, Allyson Mitchell, Zanele Muholi, Carlos Motta, Ocaña, Hélio Oiticica, Catherine Opie, Marlon Riggs, Emily Roysdon, Prem Sahib, Assoto Saint, Tejal Shah, Amy Sillman, Jack Smith, AL Steiner, Wolfgang Tillmans, Toxic Titties, Danh Vo, David Wojnarowicz, Wu Tsang, Yan Xing, Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Akram Zaatari and Sergio Zevallos
Historically 'queer' was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, this negative speech act was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honour. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity. Artists who identify their practices as queer today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships and relationships. This is the first anthology to bring together artist's writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique.
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