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.

About the author

Renate Lorenz (PhD) is professor of art and research at the Academy of Art in Vienna. She also works as an independent author, curator and artist, mostly in the fields of queer, gender, and art theory. Together with Pauline Boudry she produces film installations, which she exhibits in art spaces internationally.

Report

"A very complex book that manages to be comprehensive - and infectious at the same time."

Persson Perry Baumgartinger, Stimme [quarterly magazine published by the_Austrian U+0027Initiative M 20121106

Product details

• Authors: Renate Lorenz
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9783837616859
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-1685-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Weight: 267 g
• Illustrations: 26 Farbabb.
• Series: Queer Studies; Queer Studies 02; Queer Studies; Queer Studies 02
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Fotografie, Soziologie, Photographie, Darstellende Künste, Performancekunst, Farbfotografie, Kunsttheorie, Gender Studies, Geschlechterforschung, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Kunst / Theorie, Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie, Photo, Erotik / Homoerotik, Performance (künstlerisch), Gender Studies / Homosexualität (LGBTQ), Homosexualität (LGBTQ)