Art & queer culture / Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Phaidon Press, 2013.Description: 412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9780714849355 (hbk.)
  • 0714849359 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Art and queer culture
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.103 23
LOC classification:
  • N72.H64 L66 2013
Contents:
Survey. Inverted histories : 1885-1979 / Richard Meyer ; Inside the body politic : 1980-present / Catherine Lord -- Works. Thresholds (1885-1909) ; Stepping out (1910-29) ; Case studies (1930-49) ; Closet organizers (1950-64) ; Into the streets (1965-79) ; Sex wars (1980-94) ; Queer worlds (1995-present) -- Documents. Thresholds (1885-1909) ; Stepping out (1910-29) ; Case studies (1930-49) ; Closet organizers (1950-64) ; Into the streets (1965-79) ; Sex wars (1980-94) ; Queer worlds (1995-present).
Summary: Writing queer culture into art history means redrawing the boundaries of what counts as art, as well as what counts as history. It means searching for cracks in the partition that separates 'high' art from 'low' culture and in the divide between public achievement and private life. Not a book exclusively about artists who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, this volume instead traces the shifting possibilities and constraints of sexual identity that have provided visual artists with a rich creative resource over the last 125 years. The book includes not only pictures made and displayed under the rubric of fine art but also those intended for private, underground or otherwise restricted audiences, including scrapbooks, amateur artworks, cartoons, bar murals, anonymous photographs, and activist posters, as well as paintings, sculptures, art photographs and video installations. The Survey essay examines the interplay between art and dissident sexualities, while the Works section presents images of over 220 key artworks accompanied by informative captions, and the Documents section provides a generous archive of primary and secondary texts.--From publisher description.
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Includes index.

Survey. Inverted histories : 1885-1979 / Richard Meyer ; Inside the body politic : 1980-present / Catherine Lord -- Works. Thresholds (1885-1909) ; Stepping out (1910-29) ; Case studies (1930-49) ; Closet organizers (1950-64) ; Into the streets (1965-79) ; Sex wars (1980-94) ; Queer worlds (1995-present) -- Documents. Thresholds (1885-1909) ; Stepping out (1910-29) ; Case studies (1930-49) ; Closet organizers (1950-64) ; Into the streets (1965-79) ; Sex wars (1980-94) ; Queer worlds (1995-present).

Writing queer culture into art history means redrawing the boundaries of what counts as art, as well as what counts as history. It means searching for cracks in the partition that separates 'high' art from 'low' culture and in the divide between public achievement and private life. Not a book exclusively about artists who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, this volume instead traces the shifting possibilities and constraints of sexual identity that have provided visual artists with a rich creative resource over the last 125 years. The book includes not only pictures made and displayed under the rubric of fine art but also those intended for private, underground or otherwise restricted audiences, including scrapbooks, amateur artworks, cartoons, bar murals, anonymous photographs, and activist posters, as well as paintings, sculptures, art photographs and video installations. The Survey essay examines the interplay between art and dissident sexualities, while the Works section presents images of over 220 key artworks accompanied by informative captions, and the Documents section provides a generous archive of primary and secondary texts.--From publisher description.

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