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Queer formalism : the return / William J. Simmons.

By: Series: Critic's essay seriesPublication details: Berlin : Floating Opera Press, 2022.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 88 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 17 cmISBN:
  • 9783982389400
  • 9783981910858
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Contents:
Introduction (For Audrey Horne) -- Queer formalism revisited: on queer feminist touch (For Nic and Amy) -- How to disappear (For Lana Del Rey and Laurie Simmons) -- Queer materialism (For Greer Lankton and Lena Dunham) -- Transfiguration dans l'amour (For Jessica Lange and Felipe Núñez).
Summary: 'Queer Formalism: The Return' expands upon William J. Simmons's original, influential essay 'Notes on Queer Formalism' from 2013, offering novel ways of thinking about queer-feminist art outside of the critical-complicit and abstract-representational binaries that continue to haunt contemporary queer art. It therefore proposes a new kind of queer art writing, one that skirts the limits imposed by normative histories of art and film. Artists addressed in 'Queer Formalism: The Return' include: Sally Mann, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Math Bass, Lorna Simpson, Laurie Simmons, Alex Prager, Lana Del Rey, and Louise Lawler, among others.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction (For Audrey Horne) -- Queer formalism revisited: on queer feminist touch (For Nic and Amy) -- How to disappear (For Lana Del Rey and Laurie Simmons) -- Queer materialism (For Greer Lankton and Lena Dunham) -- Transfiguration dans l'amour (For Jessica Lange and Felipe Núñez).

'Queer Formalism: The Return' expands upon William J. Simmons's original, influential essay 'Notes on Queer Formalism' from 2013, offering novel ways of thinking about queer-feminist art outside of the critical-complicit and abstract-representational binaries that continue to haunt contemporary queer art. It therefore proposes a new kind of queer art writing, one that skirts the limits imposed by normative histories of art and film. Artists addressed in 'Queer Formalism: The Return' include: Sally Mann, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Math Bass, Lorna Simpson, Laurie Simmons, Alex Prager, Lana Del Rey, and Louise Lawler, among others.