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Queer Behavior - Scott Burton and Performance Art (Hardcover)
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Queer Behavior - Scott Burton and Performance Art (Hardcover)
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The first book to chart Scott Burton's performance art and
sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (1939-89) created performance
art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual
cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J.
Getsy argues that Burton looked to body language and queer behavior
in public space-most importantly, street cruising-as foundations
for rethinking the audiences and possibilities of art. This first
book on the artist examines Burton's underacknowledged
contributions to performance art and how he made queer life central
in them. Extending his performances about cruising, sexual
signaling, and power dynamics throughout the decade, Burton also
came to create functional sculptures that covertly signaled
queerness by hiding in plain sight as furniture waiting to be used.
With research drawing from multiple archives and numerous
interviews, Getsy charts Burton's deep engagements with
postminimalism, performance, feminism, behavioral psychology,
design history, and queer culture. A restless and expansive artist,
Burton transformed his commitment to gay liberation into a unique
practice of performance, sculpture, and public art that aspired to
be antielitist, embracing of differences, and open to all. Filled
with stories of Burton's life in New York's art communities, Queer
Behavior makes a case for Burton as one of the most significant out
queer artists to emerge in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and
offers rich accounts of queer art and performance art in the 1970s.
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