Free Download David Deutsch, "Everyday Joys in Twenty-First Century Queer American Painting: Ecstatic Ordinarinesses "
English | ISBN: 103250840X | 2023 | 138 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life.
To do so, it offers the first sustained study of five individually renowned twenty-first-century queer painters―Gio Black Peter, Doron Langberg, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Salman Toor, and João Gabriel―who have achieved substantial recognition from international museums, galleries, and critics working with short-form reviews but not yet from academics producing large-scale studies. This study argues for a broad understanding of what constitutes the queer American art of our time and for a broad sense of who can help to fashion American culture and history, including art by African American, Southeast Asian, Muslim and Jewish American, South American, and gender nonconforming queer artists.
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