TY  - BOOK
AU  - Getsy,David
TI  - Queer
T2  - Documents of contemporary art
SN  - 9780262528672 (pbk.) :
U1  - 700.4'53 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Homosexuality and the arts
KW  - Homosexuality and art
KW  - Homosexuality in art
KW  - Artists' writings
N1  - LGBTQ+; LGBT+; LGBTQ; LGBT; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
ER  -