num_pages: 180
description: A queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory post-colonial theory and (dis-)ability studies proposing the three terms radical drag transtemporal drag and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard Shinique Smith Jack Smith Wu Ingrid Tsang Ron Vawter Bob Flanagan Henrik Olesen Felix Gonzalez-Torres Sharon Hayes and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.
language: English
title: Queer Art: A Freak Theory
publisher: Transcript Verlag