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

Getsy, David J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030019675X ISBN 13: 9780300196757

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2015

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"David Getsy is a key voice among a new generation of art historians."-Art in America * Art in America * "In bringing to light a grossly neglected approach to the topic and action of gendering in art production and interpretation, Getsy's book demonstrates that we are still processing the profound event that was 1960s abstraction, still reconciling ourselves to its categorical refusals, semiotic disruptions, and relational revisions."-Art Journal * Art Journal * "Highly recommended."-Choice * Choice * "Getsy produces a daring and fascinating project" -Jenni Sorkin, Oxford Art Journal 'Abstract Bodies makes a remarkable intervention into art history, combining a rigorous attention to the history of sculpture with surprising and elaborate readings of the art of the 1960s. As a result of his disciplined attention to abstract forms rather than figural representations of the body, David Getsy has opened a new chapter in art history. This is a brilliant and original book and will change the way we think about the dynamics between art, embodiment, plasticity, and queer form.' Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California 'David Getsy's Abstract Bodies represents a welcome convergence of the long established academic discipline of art history with the more recent interdisciplinary field of transgender studies. This book is not a history of transgender artists or transgender themes in art, but rather a path-breaking application of transgender studies as a heuristic lens. His deft coupling of subject matter and critical framework enables readers to grasp the profound extent to which the plasticity of shape and transformation of substance in reference to human being is a central feature of recent Western history.' Susan Stryker, University of Arizona 'Abstract Bodies more than bridges art history and gender studies-David Getsy demonstrates that these fields need each other. This book shows us how to see gender's capacities in texture, light and form-loosened from the discourse of sex, gender becomes a material possibility. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to write about sculpture, or who wants to know how queer art history can be.' Jennifer Doyle, University of California at Riverside 'The insights that emerge from David Getsy's analyses of sculpture, reception, anecdote, historiography, and of the particular languages - and voices - of artists, are provocative and profound. In the process of locating transformational energies in these artists' works, Getsy not only connects us more intimately to each artist but also redirects the field of postwar abstract sculpture.' Michael Brenson, Bard College

Reseña del editor:

Original and theoretically astute, Abstract Bodies is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. 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 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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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 030019675X
• ISBN 13: 9780300196757
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392