A look at narratives of LGBTQ+ artists and examples of key historical LGBTQ+ art history publications:
Abstract bodies : sixties sculpture in the expanded field of gender / David J. Getsy.
73.036"196" GET
2015
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 the figure were left behind, artists and critics asked how the human, and particularly gender and sexuality, related to abstract sculptural objects that refused the human form. This book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender and queer theory, David J. Getsy offers innovative and archivally rich new interpretations of artworks by and critical writing about four major artists--Dan Flavin (1933-1996), Nancy Grossman (b. 1940), John Chamberlain (1927-2011), and David Smith (1906-1965).
Against all odds: lesbians and gay men
LON-BRI (Brixton Art Gallery)
1986
Featuring artists: Paul Auber, Penny Baker, John Baldwin, Sarah Bennett, Dorothy Blackaby, Paolo Bozzoni, Julia Carellos, Vanda Carter, Jimmy Cronin, Jean Downey, Anne Farnan, Helena Goldwater, Matthew Grimsdale, Carl Johnson, Sandra Lahire, Miriam Ludbrook, Zuni Luni, Rosy Martin, Bol Marjoram, Carolyn Murray, Kate Novaczek, Maureen Oliver, Amanda Owen, Gordon Rainford, Anne Robinson, Steve Rush, Samadhista, Jola Scicinska, Caroline Sheldon, Yvette Simpson, Gary Paul Smith, David Sommerville, Jo Spence, Martine Thoquenne, George Tobias, Sef Townsend, Harriet Wistrich
Art and homosexuality: a history of ideas
7.049.1 REE
2011
This book draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and the homosexual began to take shape, and almost as quickly to overlap. Not a chronology of gay and lesbian artists, the book is a fascinating and sophisticated account of the ways two conspicuous identities have fundamentally informed one another.
Art and queer culture
7.049.1 LOR
2013
Art and Queer Culture is a comprehensive and definitive survey of artworks that have constructed, contested or otherwise responded to alternative forms of sexuality. Not a book exclusively about artists who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, Art and Queer Culture instead traces the shifting possibilities and constraints of sexual identity that have provided visual artists with a rich creative resource over the last 125 years
Bibliography of gay and lesbian art
7.049.1 (016) BIB
1994
Bibliography compiled by the College Art Association.
Bisexual imaginary : representation, identity, desire.
7.049.1 BIS
1997
This collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary representations of bisexuality - both "real" and "imagined" - in literature, film and the visual arts. They ask questions concerning what it means to desire both men and women and explores the role of bisexuality in the construction of every person's sexual identity.
Blacktino queer performance / edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera.
7.071-054/055.34 BLA
2016
Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and Latinidad through a stimulating mix of theory and art. The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices.
Cruising the archive: queer art and culture in Los Angeles
USA-LOS-ONE
2011
This publication was printed in conjunction with Cruising the archive: Queer art and culture in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, a three-part exhibition organized by David Frantz and Mia Locks
Damn fine art: art by new lesbian artists / Cherry Smyth
7.049.1 SMY
1996
With works by Patricia Hurl, Lucinda Oestreicher, Catherine Opie, Ingrid Pollard, Nicola Tyson and many others
Fire in the belly: the life and times of David Wojnarowicz
7 WOJN CAR
2012
Fire in the Belly is the untold story of a polarizing figure at a pivotal moment in American culture. This publication explores David’s work in paintings, photographs, films, texts, and installations, and explores his role as a gay artist in the East Village.
Gay and lesbian studies in art history
7.041-055.34 GAY
1994
Explores issues of homosexuality and the homoerotic within the field of art historical discourse and questions the canon of western art history. Davis' anthology extends the methods of lesbian and gay studies to elucidate the art of the pre-modern period as well as twentieth-century art
Harlem Renaissance revisited
(747)7.071-0.54(=96) HAR
2010
Book chapter ‘Between Black gay men: artistic collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to brother ‘
A hidden love: art and homosexuality
7.049.1 FER
2002
This volume examines artistic works from the past to show how the most powerful representations of homosexuality have emerged from conditions of secrecy and even repression. The book is illustrated with works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Canova, Lucien Freud, Robert Mapplethorpe and others. Fernandez considers the many styles and strategies by which artists, sculptors and photographers have elaborated on the essence of homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, the Renaissance and Baroque movements, Chinese and Japanese erotica, the 19th century, the official art of fascism and, finally, the modern and contemporary eras.
Hidden histories: 20th century male same sex lovers in the visual arts / Michael Petry
7.049.1 PET
2004
Exhibition catalogue. Hidden Histories is the first international historical survey of its kind on the lives and work of 20th century male artists, who were same sex lovers. It investigates the relationship between the artists' production and the development of their sexual identity. 100 artists featured including Singer-Sargent, Beaton, Johns, Rauschenberg, Bacon, Warhol, Hockney and Mapplethorpe
Hideseek : difference and desire in American portraiture / Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward USA-WAS-NAT
2011
The first major museum exhibition to focus on themes of gender and sexuality in modern American portraiture, HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture brings together more than one hundred works in a wide range of media, including paintings, photographs, works on paper, film, and installation art. The exhibition charts the underdocumented role that sexual identity has played in the making of modern art, and highlights the contributions of gay and lesbian artists to American art. Beginning in the late nineteenth century with Thomas Eakins’ Realist paintings, HIDE/SEEK traces the often coded narrative of sexual desire in art produced throughout the early modern period and up to the present. The exhibition features pieces by canonical figures in American art—including George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Alice Neel, and Berenice Abbott—along with works that openly assert gay and lesbian subjects in modern and contemporary art, by artists such as Jess Collins and Tee Corinne. In addition to revealing connections between sexual identity and formal developments in modern art, HIDE/SEEK presents artists’ responses to the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the AIDS epidemic, and postmodern themes of identity, highlighted with major pieces by artists such as AA Bronson, Félix González-Torres, and Annie Leibovitz. More than simply documenting a prominent subculture often relegated to the margins of American art, HIDE/SEEK offers a unique survey of more than a century of American portraiture and leads the way towards a more nuanced and inclusive understanding of modern art in America.
Homosexuality and art
7.049.1 SMA (OVERSIZE)
2003
James Small’s study of art history considers homosexuality in art from Western antiquity to 2000
Images of Ambiente: Homotextuality and Latin American Art
7.049.1 BLE
2000
The gay cultures of Latin America expressed themselves in a variety of ways artistically, from the early 19th century to the present. "Images of Ambiente" traces the development of such art and reflects the backlash against gay American influences.
Inside out: lesbian theories, gay theories / Diana Fuss
301.18-055.3 INS
1991
The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music, photography, and art history.
The lesbian and gay studies reader
(73)301.18-055.3 LES
1993
Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work currently being done in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader explores a multitude of sexual, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic experiences
Lesbian art in America
(73)7.049.1 HAM
2000
Includes profiles of the artists Harmony Hammond, Deborah Kass, Kate Millett, Catherine Opie, Joan Snyder and others
LGBT people and the UK Cultural sector: the response of libraries, museums, archives, and heritage since 1950 / John Vincent
(41)069.1-055.34 VIN
2014
Lust unearthed: vintage gay graphics from the DuBek collection
7.049.1 WAU
2004
The 200-plus, never before published drawings in Lust Unearthed are from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek, and are now part of the permanent collections at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society, San Francisco.
On sexuality: collecting everyone’s experience
069 ONS
2015
Sexuality is an important part of everyone's experience, everywhere and from the earliest times. But very few museums or galleries consciously address the subject in their exhibitions. And fewer still consciously collect. In On Sexuality, highly-regarded institutions including the Chicago History Museum and the University of London Institute of Education share their experience and provide the insights and advice museums need
Out of the closet, into the archives : researching sexual histories / edited by Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell.
7:930.25 OUT
2015
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, exposes various levels of public and privateness - recognition, awareness, refusal, impulse, disclosure, framing, silence, cultural intelligibility - each mediated and determined through subjective insider/outsider ways of knowing. The contributors draw on their experiences conducting research in disciplines such as sociology, African American studies, English, communications, performance studies, anthropology, and women's and gender studies. These essays challenge scholars to engage with their affective experience of being in the archive, illuminating how the space of the archive requires a different kind of deeply personal, embodied research.
Outlaw representation: censorship and homosexuality
(73)7.049.1 MEY
2002
This text considers the relationship among homosexuality, censorship, and self-representation in American art from 1934-1990 by examining a series of historical episodes in which work by gay male artists was suppressed or censored. Beginning with Paul Cadmus's painting and ending with an exploration of the AIDS activist artwork by the collective Gran Fury, Meyer focuses particularly on the work of Cadmus, Andy Warhol, and Robert Mapplethorpe. In this well-illustrated book, Meyer documents how gay artists secured a visual language of self-representation and how that language was contested by the larger culture
Outlooks: lesbian and gay sexualities
7.049.1-055.34 OUT
1996
Outlooks reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual culture while tackling such issues as the advantages of adopting a queer perspective on past art, the responses of lesbian and gay artists to the AIDS crisis, and society's attempts to censor homosexual art. Providing a space for lesbian and gay artists to exhibit their work and discuss its relationship to sexuality, Outlooks It allows for a wide ranging theoretical and historical discussion of the place of lesbians and gay men within visual cultures and shows how much has been missed by a heterosexist approach to art history and the study of culture.
Pictures and passions: a history of homosexuality in the visual arts
7.049.1 SAS
1999
This publication documents homosexuality through art history, from classical Greek and Roman art, European renaissance, contemporary and historical Islamic art, right through to modernism.
Pink labor on golden streets : queer art practices / Christiane Erharter.
7.049.1 PIN
2015
Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices builds on an exhibition and conference at
the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna that explored the contradictory standpoints of queer art practices, conceptions of the body, and ideas of “queer abstraction,” a term coined by Judith Jack Halberstam that raises questions to do with (visual) representations in the context of gender, sexuality, and desire. It is particularly concerned with where form and politics crossover, citing the various combinations, juxtapositions, and the play between artistic strategies. This publication brings together papers from the 2012 conference and writing on artworks and art practices. In addition to testimonials from queer performers on the topic of “drag,” the book also includes interviews, essays, collage, and more personal writing. By placing these contemporary practices in a historical perspective and revising the perceived divergence between artistic attitudes and formal approach, this publication offers diverse and thought-provoking points of view
Queer / David J. Getsy
7.049.1 QUE
2016
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 identity. Rather, it offers a strategic undercutting of the stability of identity and of the dispensation of power that shadows the assignment of categories and taxonomies. Artists who identify their practices as queer today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships, relationships, loves, and communities. Rather than a book of queer theory for artists, this is a book of artists’ queer tactics and infectious concepts. By definition, there can be no singular “queer art.” Here, in the first Documents of Contemporary Art anthology to be centered on artists’ writings, numerous conversations about queer practice are brought together from diverse individual, social and cultural contexts. Together these texts describe and examine the ways in which artists have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action, and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference.
Queer beauty: sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud
7.01-055.34 DAV
2010
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or dueling domains. In turn, sexual desire and aesthetic pleasure had to be profoundly rethought by later writers.
Queer Encyclopedia of the visual arts
7.0491.1 QUE
2004
Why is St. Sebastian an icon of gay male artists? Is there such a thing as a gay or lesbian sensibility? What's the connection between Buddhist monasteries and Japanese homoerotic imagery? And are all those European bathing scenes as deliciously homoerotic as they seem? The perfect browser's guide to queer art - and the ideal reference work - The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts answers these questions and more.
Queer saint: the cultured life of Peter Watson
92 WATS CLA
2015
In addition to helping create the ICA, Peter Watson supported the literary magazine Horizon as its financial backer and arts editor, as well as encouraging and supporting artists and poets such as Lucian Freud, John Craxton and David Gascoyne. Privately, Watson was a doyen of the gay scene, cutting a dash through 1930s Berlin cabaret, pre-war Paris, English high society and the golden boulevards of Hollywood, before his tragic and mysterious death in 1956
Sister arts: the erotics of lesbian landscapes
7.047 MOO
2011
In the great age of English garden design, eighteenth-century women working in the “sister arts” of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and intriguing stories, Lisa L. Moore reveals how these women artists used flowers, gardens, and landscapes to express their love for other women.
Sexual perspective: homosexuality and art
7.049.1 COO
1994
First published in 1986 to wide critical acclaim, The Sexual Perspective broke new ground by bringing together and discussing the painting, sculpture and photography of artists who were gay /lesbian /queer /bisexual. The lavishly illustrated new edition discusses the greater lesbian visibility within the visual arts and artist's responses to the AIDS epidemic. Emmanuel Cooper places the art in its artistic, social and legal contexts, making it a vital contribution to current debates about art, gender, identity and sexuality
Speaking for vice / Jonathan Weinberg
7.049.1 WEI
1993
Focusing on the art of Charles Demuth and his friend and fellow member of the Steiglitz Circle, Marsden Hartley this book aims to show the many ways in which the homosexual culture of the years between the wars informs their work and that of other artists.