{"product_id":"abstract-bodies-david-j-getsy-9780300271898","title":"Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now back in print, \u003ci\u003eAbstract Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art history. Original and theoretically astute, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This 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. 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). \u003ci\u003eAbstract Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e makes a case for abstraction as a resource in reconsidering gender's multiple capacities and offers an ambitious contribution to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David J. Getsy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300271891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300271898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.70w x 0.50d","brand":"David J. Getsy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069870502143,"sku":"9780300271898","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0fb830e-4d7a-48a4-8fc3-ceca48964fe4.jpg?v=1685426985","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/abstract-bodies-david-j-getsy-9780300271898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}