Bound Together - Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present.

List of contents

List of plates
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: bound together
2 The work of the master's hand
3 How to talk about Tom
4 Yellow, or reading archives diagonally
5 Numbers
6 'Clubs that don't exist anymore'
7 Attached to history
8 'Deep fist at the Modern'
9 Conclusion: surrogates, envelopes
Select bibliography
Index

About the author

Andy Campbell is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at USC Roski School of Art and Design

Summary

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Andy Campbell, Campbell Andy
• Assisted by: Amelia Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781526142801
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4280-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Historiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Historiography, Social issues & processes, Material Culture, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality