Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender - Softcover

Getsy, David J.

 
9780300271898: Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300271891 ISBN 13: 9780300271898
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory

Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art history. Original and theoretically astute, it recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender’s mutability and multiplicity. In that decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to explore the human as an implicit reference. Even as the statue and the figure were left behind, artists and critics asked how the human, and particularly gender and sexuality, related to abstract sculptural objects that refused the human form.

This book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender studies and queer theory, David J. Getsy offers innovative and archivally rich new interpretations of artworks by and critical writing about four major artists—Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Nancy Grossman (b. 1940), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), and David Smith (1906–1965). Abstract Bodies makes a case for abstraction as a resource in reconsidering gender’s multiple capacities and offers an ambitious contribution to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field.

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David J. Getsy is Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300271891
ISBN 13 
9780300271898
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
372
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