Menu
Cart
Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

  • 2,250.00 ฿

**Forthcoming 18  April 2023** Pre-Order Now to reserve a copy!  **สั่งจองล่วงหน้าได้เลยเพื่อให้ได้รับอย่างรวดเร็วเมื่อหนังสือออก**

 

An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory

 

Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art history. Original and theoretically astute, it recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender's mutability and multiplicity. In that decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to explore the human as an implicit reference. Even as the statue and the figure were left behind, artists and critics asked how the human, and particularly gender and sexuality, related to abstract sculptural objects that refused the human form.

 

This book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender studies and queer theory, David J. Getsy offers innovative and archivally rich new interpretations of artworks by and critical writing about four major artists--Dan Flavin (1933-1996), Nancy Grossman (b. 1940), John Chamberlain (1927-2011), and David Smith (1906-1965). Abstract Bodies makes a case for abstraction as a resource in reconsidering gender's multiple capacities and offers an ambitious contribution to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field.

 

3.05 cms H x 25.4 cms L x 19.05 cms W, 400 pages, Softcover, April 2023.

We Also Recommend
My Kitchen Out Of Eden’s : No. 9 Looking Back and Forward

My Kitchen Out Of Eden’s : No. 9 Looking Back and Forward

550.00 ฿
Composition: Uncover the Ideas Behind the Great Works of Modern Art by Michael Archer

Composition: Uncover the Ideas Behind the Great Works of Modern Art by Michael Archer

2,250.00 ฿
Gabriele Munter: Painting to the Point by Isabelle Jansen

Gabriele Munter: Painting to the Point by Isabelle Jansen

1,950.00 ฿
Women Photographers: From Anna Atkins to Newsha Tavakolian by Boris Friedewald

Women Photographers: From Anna Atkins to Newsha Tavakolian by Boris Friedewald

1,950.00 ฿
Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City's Independent Shops, Past and Present

Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City's Independent Shops, Past and Present

1,950.00 ฿