Art & queer culture / Catherine Lord & Richard Meyer.

By:

Lord, Catherine, 1949-

Contributor(s):

Meyer, Richard, 1966-

Material type: Text

TextPublication 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:

306.766 LOR

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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	306.766 LOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100467258

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Art and Queer Culture is a comprehensive and definitive survey of artworks that have constructed, contested or otherwise responded to alternative forms of sexuality. Not a book exclusively about artists who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, Art and Queer Culture 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.

Includes index.

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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Catherine Lord is Professor of Studio Art and Core Faculty Member in the Program in Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is a writer, artist and curator whose work addresses cultural politics, including disability, queer identities, feminism and colonialism. She has received fellowships and awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Lord was Associate Editor at Afterimage , and her critical essays and fiction have been published in Art & Text , New Art Examiner, Whitewall, Framework , Documents, X-Tra , Art Journal and Art Paper . Her work is also included in the surveys The Contest of Meaning (1989) and Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present (1996).

Richard Meyer is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California. His studies in modern and contemporary art focus on the ongoing debate over sexuality and gender, its effects on modern art and visual culture, and censorship and the public sphere. A graduate of Yale (BA) and Berkeley (MA, PhD), in 1998 he was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Getty Research Institute for History of Art & Humanties. His writing has appeared in a number of art journals, including Artforum, and in several museum publications, such as Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007). He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (2002).