Title Queer art : a freak theory : Amanda Baggs, Pauline Boudry, Bob Flanagan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, Zoe Leonard, Henrik Olesen, Jack Smith, Shinique Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter / Renate Lorenz ; translated by Daniel Hendrickson

Published Bielefeld : Transcript, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (180 pages) : color illustrations Series Queer studies ; Band 2 Queer studies ; Bd. 2. Contents Radical drag. A body bundle -- Drag work -- Doubling embodiment/pain and pain -- Transtemporal drag. The chronopolitics of becoming salome -- Speaking backwards -- The beauty of the form of time displayed -- Abstract drag. An activity in absence -- The topography of desire -- Respeaking Summary 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 Boud Notes Papers presented at a conference held in Berlin, Germany August 28-30, 2009 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Homosexuality and art -- Congresses Queer theory -- Congresses Cross-dressing in art -- Congresses Performance art -- Congresses ART -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies Homosexuality and art Performance art Queer theory Cross-dressing in art Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Hendrickson, Daniel, translator. Freaky Queer Art Conference (2009 : Berlin, Germany), issuing body. ISBN 9783839416853 383941685X

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