Queer / edited by David J. Getsy.
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TextSeries: Documents of contemporary artPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2016Description: 237 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262528672 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Homosexuality and the arts | Homosexuality and art | Homosexuality in art | Artists' writingsDDC classification: 700.4'53 Summary: Historically 'queer' was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, this negative speech act was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honour. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity. Artists who identify their practices as queer today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships and relationships. This is the first anthology to bring together artist's writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historically 'queer' was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, this negative speech act was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honour. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity. Artists who identify their practices as queer today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships and relationships. This is the first anthology to bring together artist's writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique.
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