Dragging Away
Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Lex Morgan Lancaster
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Dragging Away
Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Lex Morgan Lancaster
Ă propos de ce livre
In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a dragâdragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them while pulling their work away from direct representationâthese artists reimagine midcentury forms of abstraction and expose the violence of the tendency to reduce abstract form to a bodily sign or biographical symbolism. Lancaster outlines how the geometric enamel objects, grid paintings, vibrant color, and expansive installations of artists ranging from Ulrike MĂŒller, Nancy Brooks Brody, and Lorna Simpson to Linda Besemer, Sheila Pepe, and Shinique Smith offer direct challenges to representational and categorical legibility. In so doing, Lancaster demonstrates that abstraction is not apolitical, neutral, or universal; it is a form of social praxis that actively contributes to queer, feminist, critical race, trans, and crip politics.
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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Edging Geometry
- 2. Feeling the Grid
- 3. Flaming Color
- 4. Transforming Everyday Matter
- Epilogue. Dragging the Flag
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates