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Bound together
Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art
Andy Campbell
- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Bound together
Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art
Andy Campbell
About This Book
What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of the present? This book sheds light on an area long ignored by traditional art history and LGBTQ studies, examining the legacies of the visual and material cultures of US leather communities. It discusses the work of contemporary artists such as Patrick Staff, Dean Sameshima, Monica Majoli, AK Burns and AL Steiner, and the artist collective Die KrĂ€nken, showing how archival histories and contemporary artistic projects might be applied in a broader analysis of LGBTQ culture and norms. Hanky codes, blurry photographs of Tom of Finland drawings, a pin sash weighted down with divergent histories â these become touchstones for writing leather histories.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: bound together
- 2 The work of the Masterâs hand
- 3 How to talk about Tom
- 4 Yellow, or reading archives diagonally
- 5 Numbers
- 6 âClubs that donât exist anymoreâ
- 7 Attached to history
- 8 âDeep fist at the Modernâ
- 9 Conclusion: surrogates, envelopes
- Select bibliography
- Index