Abstract bodies : sixties sculpture in the expanded field of gender

Abstract bodies : sixties sculpture in the expanded field of gender / David J. Getsy.

"Original and theoretically astute, Abstract bodies is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender's mutability and multiplicity...

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Main Author: Getsy, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Flavin, Dan, > 1933-1996 > Criticism and interpretation.
Grossman, Nancy > Criticism and interpretation.
Chamberlain, John, > 1927-2011 > Criticism and interpretation.
Smith, David, > 1906-1965 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chamberlain, John, > 1927-2011
Flavin, Dan, > 1933-1996
Grossman, Nancy
Smith, David, > 1906-1965
Sculpture, Abstract > United States > Themes, motives.
Sex role in art.
Sculpture, Abstract > Themes, motives
Sex role in art
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : 'new' genders and sculpture in the 1960s
  • On not making boys : David Smith, Frank O'Hara, and gender assignment
  • Immoderate couplings : transformations and genders in John Chamberlain's work
  • Second skins : the unbound genders of Nancy Grossman's sculpture
  • Dan Flavin's dedications
  • Conclusion: abstraction and the unforeclosed.

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