Lancaster Lex Morgan Lancaster

Dragging Away (eBook, PDF)

Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art

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Produktbeschreibung

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 drag-dragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them while pulling their work away from direct representation-these 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 Muller, 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023296
• Artikelnr.: 66282709

Autorenporträt

Lex Morgan Lancaster is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Edging Geometry  34
2. Feeling the Grid  60
3. Flaming Color  86
4. Transforming Everyday Matter  110
Epilogue. Dragging the Flag  133
Notes  147
Bibliography  165
Index  177