Queer Art: A Freak Theory
A queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, proposing the three terms radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.
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Queer Art: A Freak Theory
A queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, proposing the three terms radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.
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Queer Art: A Freak Theory

Queer Art: A Freak Theory

by Renate Lorenz
Queer Art: A Freak Theory

Queer Art: A Freak Theory

by Renate Lorenz

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A queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, proposing the three terms radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783837616859
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Publication date: 07/01/2012
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.51(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Renate Lorenz (PhD) works as an artist and as an independent author, mostly in the fields of queer, gender, and art theory. She is professor of art and research at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Table of Contents

1
Contents 5
Preface 7
An Introduction 15
Freak/y Epistemology (Prependix) 35
A a body/bundle 53
B drag work 57
C doubling embodiment/pain and pain 78
A the chronopolitics of becoming salome 93
B speaking backwards 110
C the beauty of the form of time displayed 118
A an activity in absence 131
B the topography of desire 136
C respeaking 145
An End 155
Appendix (Methodology) 161
Literature 173
List of Illustrations 179
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