{"title":"David J. Getsy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid J. Getsy’s work delves into contemporary art through a critical and scholarly lens, exploring themes of identity, behaviour, and representation. Readers can expect richly argued texts that engage with \u003cem\u003eabstract bodies\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003equeer behaviour\u003c\/em\u003e, offering fresh perspectives on the intersections between art and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis books are essential for those interested in the evolving conversations within \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, challenging traditional narratives and highlighting the complexity of visual and social expression in modern and contemporary contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"queer-behavior-by-david-j-getsy-9780226817064","title":"Queer Behavior","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book to chart Scott Burton’s performance art and sculpture of the 1970s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues that Burton looked to nonverbal body language and queer behaviour in public space—most importantly, street cruising—as a foundation for rethinking the audiences and possibilities of art. Throughout the decade, he made complex works about bodies and how they communicate. Extending his performances about cruising, sexual signalling, and power dynamics, Burton also created functional sculptures that covertly signalled queerness by hiding in plain sight as furniture waiting to be used.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith research drawing from multiple archives and numerous interviews, Getsy charts Burton’s deep engagements with postminimalism, performance, feminism, behavioural psychology, design history, and queer culture. A restless and wide-ranging artist, Burton transformed his commitment to gay liberation into a unique practice of performance, sculpture, and public art that aspired to be anti-elitist, embracing of differences, and open to all. 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Original and theoretically astute, it recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender’s mutability and multiplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender studies and queer theory, David J. 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