Everyday Joys in Twenty-First Century Queer American Painting: Ecstatic Ordinarinesses

ISBN-13: 9781032508405 / Angielski

David Deutsch

Opis

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 non-conforming queer artists.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, gender studies, and queer studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Encountering Ecstatic Ordinarinesses in Queer Art: An Introduction to Everyday Ecstasies 1. Gio Black Peter’s Sublime Subway Maps: Reading the Routes of a Queer New York City, and Beyond 2. At Rest in Love and in Love with Rest: Everyday Intimacies in the Paintings of Doron Langberg 3. Salman Toor’s Enrapturing Contacts: Communicating Joy and Sorrow through the Technologies of Everyday Interactions 4. Ecstatic Queer Nature: Flowers, Seeds, and Everyday Joys in the Painting of Jonathan Lyndon Chase Conclusion: João Gabriel’s Ordinary Historical Ecstasy

O autorze

David Deutsch is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at The University of Alabama.