Description
Book SynopsisHorizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting cultural milieu, the book
uses a unique methodology that draws on queer theory, dance studies and the analysis of movement, deportment and gesture to look anew at familiar artists and artworks, but also to bring to light queer artistic figures’ key cultural contributions to the 1960s New York art world. Illustrated with rarely published images and written in clear and fluid prose,
Horizontal together will appeal to specialists and general readers interested in the study of modern and contemporary art, dance and queer history.
Trade Review'Paisid Aramphongphan brings together theories of dance, queer studies, and fine art to lay a glittering tapestry of connection and conversation across the practitioners of the period... Horizontal together is a hopeful work that offers new insight and critique in the service of a more inclusive historical practice.'
Fen Kennedy, Dance Research Journal
Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York has been nominated for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: a dancerly art history
1 The moves that queer bodies make
2 The queer horizontal repertoire: Andy Warhol and Jack Smith lie down
3 Plastiques: Jack Smith, Ruth St. Denis, and the dance of gestures
4 Dancing queers: Andy Warhol, Fred Herko, and the A-Men
5 Repetition and queer difference: Fred Herko’s history lesson
Coda
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