Queer

Summary: Rather than a book of queer theory for artists, this is a book of artists' queer tactics and infectious concepts. 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262528672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0262528673 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780854882427
ISBN: 0854882421
Physical Description: print
237 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.17
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Queer intolerability and its attachments / David J. Getsy -- Recognizing backward. The unknown woman / Natalie Clifford Barney; The white book / Jean Cocteau; You see, I am a homosexual: in conversation with Thomas H. Wirth / Richard Bruce Nugent; Our lady of the flowers / Jean Genet; Statements, ravings and epigrams / Jack Smith; Mario Montez, tropicamp / Hélio Oiticica; Meena Kumari and all that was lost with her / Nithin Manayath; Manifesto: Ridiculous theatre, scourge of human folly / Charles Ludlam; Spontaneity against integration: In conversation with Toni Puig / Ocaña; Preface to Renaud Camus, Tricks / Roland Barthes; Class notes / Harmony Hammond; Traces of ecstasy / Rotimi Fani-Kayode; At your own risk / Derek Jarman; The AIDS crisis is ridiculous / Gregg Bordowitz; Mirror / Isaac Julien; AbEx and disco balls: In defence of abstract expressionism, II / Amy Sillman --
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	Donation ; Positive Space Alliance ; 2017/09.