Dear ARLIS/NA Colleagues,
We hope you can join us for this exciting event, hosted by the WPI, and part of a wider series called "Between the Two: Art and Sexulatlity in 1960s New York".
Homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s U.S. could be discussed in public and in popular culture, but only if it was cast as a crime or as deviant. Whether as moralizing tales of social outcasts or as high-profile obscenity trials, queer themes filtered into public discourses through these negative stereotypes. Artists such as Andy Warhol, Ray Johnson, Kenneth Anger, and Nancy Grossman appropriated such characters as the delinquent or the biker as a means to figure queerness. This talk will provide an overview of some key moments of queer visibility—in the form of the criminal—in art of the 1960s.
David J. Getsy is the Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. He has published eight books, including Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale University Press, 2015/2023), Queer (MIT Press, 2016), and most recently Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
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