Search results for ""Author Andy Campbell""
Running Press,U.S. Queer X Design
Book SynopsisThe first-ever illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols, and graphic art representing more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and activism.Beginning with pre-liberation and the years before the Stonewall uprising, spanning across the 1970s and 1980s and through to the new millennium, Queer X Design celebrates the inventive and subversive designs that have powered the resilient and ever-evolving LGBTQ movement. The diversity and inclusivity of these pages is as inspiring as it is important, both in terms of the objects represented as well as in the array of creators; from buttons worn to protest Anita Bryant, to the original ''The Future is Female'' and ''Lavender Menace'' t-shirt; from the logos of Pleasure Chest and GLAAD, to the poster for Cheryl Dunye''s queer classic The Watermelon Woman; from Gilbert Baker''s iconic rainbow flag, to the quite laments of the AIDS quilt and the impassioned rage conveyed i
£20.90
Distributed Art Publishers Sarah Cain: Enter the Center
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive publication to date on Sarah Cain’s exuberant paintings and installations Los Angeles-based painter Sarah Cain (born 1979) works on canvases of all sizes, often modifying them by cutting and braiding, painting on all sides and installing the canvas with the back of the painting facing the viewer. She also paints on other surfaces, including interior and exterior walls, floors, furniture and dollar bills. Cain's process often involves altering and disfiguring a composition until the original image is no longer recognizable. Her process of creation and destruction frequently includes found objects and is steeped in the history of painting and feminist art practices. Cain's work is a challenge to the patriarchal hierarchies of painting. "Almost everything about Cain's paintings—their speed, their brashness, their noodling compositions, their splashes and spray-painted scribbles, their tacky accouterments, their sense of absurdity—seems to undermine the gravitas that large-scale painting traditionally projects," wrote Jonathan Griffin, in the New York Times. Sarah Cain: Enter the Center features new writings and previously unpublished photographs and documentation of dozens of artworks with a focus on the last decade of Cain's exuberant and unique paintings and installations.
£28.79
Manchester University Press Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and
Book SynopsisWhat 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 Kränken, 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 – these become touchstones for writing leather histories.Trade Review'An elegantly disciplined page turner, Bound Together interweaves the various cultures of leather sex and the archive with solid research, sly humor, and patient interpretation. In this context, Campbell's sections on a selected group of contemporary and modern artists are particularly insightful.'Catherine Lord, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine'Sex is good to think with, but Andy Campbell’s leathersex is even better. This exuberant, challenging, perceptive, cleverly crafted and generously illustrated study explores the role of BDSM in visual and material art, performance and archival practice – while, in the process, becoming its own sexual archive. A new kind of art history, Bound together transforms our comprehensions of sex and apprehensions of the archive.'Professor Barry Reay, author of New York Hustlers and Sex in the Archives -- .Table of ContentsList of platesList of figuresAcknowledgements1 Introduction: bound together2 The work of the master’s hand3 How to talk about Tom4 Yellow, or reading archives diagonally5 Numbers6 ‘Clubs that don’t exist anymore’7 Attached to history8 ‘Deep fist at the Modern’9 Conclusion: surrogates, envelopesSelect bibliographyIndex
£999.99
Manchester University Press Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and
Book SynopsisWhat 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 Kränken, 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 – these become touchstones for writing leather histories.Trade Review'An elegantly disciplined page turner, Bound Together interweaves the various cultures of leather sex and the archive with solid research, sly humor, and patient interpretation. In this context, Campbell's sections on a selected group of contemporary and modern artists are particularly insightful.'Catherine Lord, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine'Sex is good to think with, but Andy Campbell’s leathersex is even better. This exuberant, challenging, perceptive, cleverly crafted and generously illustrated study explores the role of BDSM in visual and material art, performance and archival practice – while, in the process, becoming its own sexual archive. A new kind of art history, Bound together transforms our comprehensions of sex and apprehensions of the archive.'Professor Barry Reay, author of New York Hustlers and Sex in the Archives -- .Table of ContentsList of platesList of figuresAcknowledgements1 Introduction: bound together2 The work of the master’s hand3 How to talk about Tom4 Yellow, or reading archives diagonally5 Numbers6 ‘Clubs that don’t exist anymore’7 Attached to history8 ‘Deep fist at the Modern’9 Conclusion: surrogates, envelopesSelect bibliographyIndex
£68.00
Intellect Queer Communion - Ron Athey
Book SynopsisRon Athey is one of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance art over the period of his career. Queer Communion, an exploration of Athey's career, refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey's performative practice and each community he engages. Emphasizing the ephemeral and largely uncollectible nature of his work, the book places Athey's own writing at its center, turning to memoir, memory recall, and other modes of retrieval and narration to archive his performances. In addition to documenting Athey's art, ephemera, notes, and drawings, the volume features commissioned essays, concise "object lessons" on individual objects in the Athey archive, and short testimonials by friends and collaborators by contributors including Dominic Johnson, Amber Musser, Julie Tolentino, Ming Ma, David Getsy, Alpesh Patel, and Zackary Drucker, among others. Together they form Queer Communion, a counter history of contemporary art.
£36.86
Hachette Books We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang
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£37.50
Radius Books Kyle Meyer: Interwoven
Book SynopsisSwazi craft meets digital photography in Kyle Meyer's astounding woven photos of a silenced LGBTQ community Kyle Meyer (born 1985) has worked between eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) and New York City since 2009, creating richly tactile artworks as conceptually complex as they are visually lush. In this debut monograph, Meyer's portraits from his Interwoven series fuse digital photography with traditional Swazi crafts, giving voice to silenced members of the LGBTQ community. Tension between the necessity of the individuals to hide their queerness for basic survival and their desire to express themselves openly inform both the subject and the means of fabricating Meyer's unique works. Each piece from the Interwoven series is labor-intensive, taking days or sometimes weeks to complete. Meyer often photographs his subjects wearing a traditional headwrap made from a vibrantly colored textile. He then produces a print of the portrait and shreds it, together with the fabric from the headwrap, weaving the strips into patterned three-dimensional works. The final portrait presents each person's individuality while using the fabric as a screen to protect their identity. Included in each copy of this book is a unique piece of fabric torn from the remnants of the Interwoven project, intended to serve as a bookmark.Trade ReviewAs much as I like an all typographic cover, I am equally impressed by a photographic cover that captures my attention. The interior, with bookmark, demonstrates the attention to detail inherent in the artist's work. -- Jennifer Morla * AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers *
£42.75
DoPe Press Jack Pierson Less and More
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£44.81
Radius Books Jennifer West: Media Archaeology
Book SynopsisWest’s material experiments in film and art explore Southern California’s changing geography This debut monograph brings together nearly a decade of “analogital” experiments in film, sculpture and installation by Jennifer West (born 1966)—one of the most committed artists working on the West Coast today. Saturated in a history of avant-garde and Third World cinema (not to mention HIV/AIDS activism and the incipient Riot Grrrl movement) since she was an undergraduate at Evergreen State College, West’s work today treads similar ground: challenging the utopianism of new media adoptees as well as the nostalgia of analog-only film adherents. The 11 projects reproduced in the book, all produced between 2014 and 2021, fall under the heading of Media Archaeology, and reveal the historical and material promiscuity of West’s experiments in film and art, often tied to the changing geography of Los Angeles and its surrounds.
£42.00
