"A fascinating look at the genesis and meaning of Van Gogh s famed paintings of his bedroom Vincent van Gogh s"The Bedroom," a painting of his room in Arles, is arguably the most famous depiction of a bedroom in the history of art. The artist made three versions of the work, now in the collections of the Van Gogh Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Musee d Orsay. This book is the first in-depth study of their making and their ..."
Queer (Documents of Contemporary Art) by DavidJ. Getsy Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Whitechapel Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-85488-242-7, ISBN: 0-85488-242-1
"Historically, 'queer' was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, this negative speech act was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honour. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of nonnormative, gay, lesbian and bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories nor is it an identity. Artists who identify their practices as quee ..."
Queer Behavior(First Edition) Scott Burton and Performance Art by Getsy, DavidJ. Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2023 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81706-4, ISBN: 0-226-81706-7
"Introduction: Scott Burton's Queer Postminimalism -- Street and Stage: Early Experiments -- Imitate Ordinary Life: Self-Works, Literalist Theater, and Being Otherwise in Public, 1969-70 -- Languages of the Body: Theatrical, Feminist, and ..."
"Historically, "queer" was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, "queer" was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an ident ..."
Scott Burton(26th Edition) Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965-1975 by Scott Burton, DavidJ. Getsy Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2012 by Soberscove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9824090-4-6, ISBN: 0-9824090-4-4
"Before gaining widespread recognition for his sculpture and public art, Scott Burton produced a substantial body of art writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s. An eclectic and wide-ranging critic, he wrote such important texts as the introduction to the groundbreaking exhibition Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form and served as an editor for both ARTnews and Art in America. In these same years, Burton became known as a perf ..."
Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender by DavidJ. Getsy Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2015 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19675-7, ISBN: 0-300-19675-X
"Original and theoretically astute, "Abstract Bodies" is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender s mutability and multiplicity. In that decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to explore the human as an implicit reference. Even as the statue and ..."
Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender by Getsy, DavidJ. Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2023 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-27189-8, ISBN: 0-300-27189-1
From Diversion to Subversion(1st Edition) Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art (Refiguring Modernism) by DavidJ. Getsy Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2011 by Penn State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-271-03703-5, ISBN: 0-271-03703-2
Body Doubles(1st Edition) Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by David John Getsy, GetsyDavidJ. Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2004 by Paul Mellon Centre Ba ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10512-4, ISBN: 0-300-10512-6
Rodin(1st Edition) Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture by DavidJ. Getsy Hardcover, 245 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16725-2, ISBN: 0-300-16725-3
Stephen Varble An Antidote to Nature's Ruin on the Heavenly Globe -- Prints and Videos from the Early 1980s by Stephen Varble; DavidJ. Getsy Softcover, Published 2018 by Institute 193, Lexington ISBN-13: 978-0-578-40688-6, ISBN: 0-578-40688-8
Marginal Waters(1st Edition) Photographs By Doug Ischar With Video Stills From "forget Him" by DavidGetsy, Doug Ischar Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 2009 by Golden Gallery Inc. , Chicago, Il ISBN-13: 978-0-615-32062-5, ISBN: 0-615-32062-7
"Published for the inaugural exhibition of the Cleveland Triennial, this book features essays and conversations by leading curators and critics of biennials who investigate what it means to stage a large-scale biennial today, in an American Midwestern city. Richly illustrated with all exhibitions and outdoor site-specific projects included.The first edition of FRONT is an expansive program of 11 interconnected "Cultural Exercises" that a ..."
"This publication documents the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's 2012-2013 William and Stephanie Sick Professorship of Catherine Opie and the course, Confronting the Abject, taught in collaboration with Oli Rodriguez."
Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender by DavidGetsy 372 Pages, Published 2015 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23264-6, ISBN: 0-300-23264-0
"This book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders."
"Heather Cassils is a performance artist and body builder who uses her own body in a sculptural fashion, thereby interrogating feminism, body art, and gay male aesthetics. Together, her body of work and physical body stretch and play with the boundaries between binary conceptions of gender, and between vulnerability and strength. Applying extreme techniques uncommon to the realm of contemporary art, such as bodybuilding, stunts, and mart ..."
"The first appraisal of the sculptural oeuvre of Elmgreen and Dragset, famed for their surreal Prada boutique in TexasScandinavian artist duo Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (born 1961 and 1969) consistently devise new possibilities in the way art is presented and perceived through their subversive and multivalent art, as seen in works such as their well-known installation Prada Marfa (2005), a permanently closed Prada boutique in the m ..."
"Nancy Grossman's work continually returns to the human body and the charged relationships that make up our world. She began as a painter in the late 1950s, working in a style that combined the energy of Abstract Expressionism with figuration. In the mid-1960s, she began incorporating found leather and metal parts into chaotic and explosive wall reliefs. Coming of age in the 1960s, Grossman was painfully aware of the condescending enviro ..."