Queer Art
From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between
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- $299.00
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- $299.00
Descripción editorial
We love and strongly recommend this beautifully curated book. Celebrating the massive and lasting global impact of LGBTQI+ artists, a book like this is long overdue! Russell Tovey & Robert Diament, co-hosts of Talk Art podcast.
Celebrate the LGBTQI+ community with this vivid collection of artworks that charts queer voices from around the world.
The twentieth century saw key shifts for the LGBTQI+ community across the western world: from the Stonewall uprising to the first pride parades and homosexuality law reforms. The years following these milestone moments have seen queer life face new challenges, celebrations, injustices and liberations.
As ever, this journey has been closely mapped by art and culture. Artists working across all mediums – from painting, performance, digital and beyond – have captured key moments, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and the rise of drag, to marriage equality and the fight for trans liberation. The artists include:
Andrew Logan, sculptor and founder of the Alternative Miss World partyLeading artists David Hockney, Nicole Eisenmann and Zanele MuholiLate greats Greer Lankton, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Tom of FinlandPioneers of Queer Cinema Derek Jarman and Sir Isaac JulienGround-breaking photographers Nan Goldin, Ajamu X, Wolfgang Tilmans and Catherine OpieContemporary art stars Sin Wai Kin, Zackary Drucker and Clifford Prince King
With nearly 200 artworks selected by leading LGBTQI+ curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley, this book mixes the high-brow with the low, gallery stalwarts with Instagram stars, and the racy with the fabulous. This is a unique celebration of queer life – a must-have for the LGBTQI+ community, art lovers and anyone interested in the culture surrounding queer identity.
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Curators Barnes and Rolls-Bentley (coauthor of Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between) offer an accessible if overly brief introduction to queer art in the 20th and 21st centuries. Spotlighting art that "troubles normative (especially heteronormative and cisgendered) ways of thinking, categorizing or being," they cover artists who depict themselves as a means of "asserting their visibility on their own terms"; who reconstruct histories of queer life; who portray romantic and platonic queer love; and who use their work to envision new futures that spurn "inherited limits" and allow "queerness thrive by design." Household names like Keith Haring, Frida Kahlo, and Andy Warhol appear alongside such contemporary artists as Salman Toor. (Entries for each artist provide a representative artwork, brief biography, and list of key works.) The authors conclude with a timeline of queer art history, a short glossary, and suggestions for further reading. There's plenty of good information to be found here, but the entries exist in a vacuum, sufficiently discussing each artist's engagement with queer themes but doing relatively little to provide context or encourage interconnected thinking. It's a useful reference book, with limits.
