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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Getsy, David John (1975-....)
Titre(s) : Queer behavior [Texte imprimé] : Scott Burton and performance art / David J. Getsy
Publication : Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2022
Description matérielle : xi, 402 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
"Scott Burton (1939-89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience
and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy
argues that Burton looked to nonverbal body language and queer behavior in public
space-most importantly, street cruising-as a foundation for rethinking the audiences
and possibilities of art. Throughout the decade, he made complex works about bodies
and how they communicate. Extending his performances about cruising, sexual signaling,
and power dynamics, Burton also created functional sculptures that covertly signaled
queerness by hiding in plain sight as furniture waiting to be used. With research
drawing from multiple archives and numerous interviews, Getsy charts Burton's deep
engagements with postminimalism, performance, feminism, behavioral psychology, design
history, and queer culture. A restless and wide-ranging artist, Burton transformed
his commitment to gay liberation into a unique practice of performance, sculpture,
and public art that aspired to be anti-elitist, embracing of differences, and open
to all. Filled with stories of Burton's life in New York's art communities, Queer
Behavior makes a case for Burton as one of the most significant out queer artists
to emerge in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and, in so doing, provides a rich
account of the interwoven histories of queer art and performance art in the 1970s"
Sujet(s) : Burton, Scott (1939-1989)
Art -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Personnes LGBTQIA -- Dans l'art
Indice(s) Dewey :
730.92 (23e éd.) = Sculpture et arts connexes - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-226-81706-4. - ISBN 0226817067. - ISBN 9780226817071 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47124490w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47124490
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Scott Burton's Queer Postminimalism ; Street and Stage: Early Experiments
; Imitate Ordinary Life: Self-Works, Literalist Theater, and Being Otherwise in Public,
1969-70 ; Languages of the Body: Theatrical, Feminist, and Scientific Foundations,
1970-71 ; Performance and Its Uses ; The Emotional Nature of the Number of Inches
between Them: Behavior Tableaux, 1972-80 ; Acting Out: Queer Reactions and Reveals,
1973-76 ; Pragmatic Structures: Sculpture and the Performance of Furniture, 1972-79
; Conclusion: Homocentric and Demotic.
