Queer holdings : a survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum collection / edited by Gonzalo Casals and Noam Parness.

Date:
[2019]
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Description

Founded in the context of social movements of the late 1960s, The Leslie-Lohman Museum is dedicated to preserving art that speaks to the LGBTQ experience and fostering the artists who create it. Queer Holdings aims to reclaim scholarship from a queer perspective by surveying 200 works from the Museum's permanent collection. A selection of essays by scholars, artists and archivists, explore the Museum's possible futures by tracing its visual, cultural, and political evolutions in parallel with 50 years of shifting social conditions for LGBTQ communities. The collecting origins of the Leslie-Lohman Museum can be traced to 1969, when its founders hosted their first 'homosexual art fair' in New York. Evolving from gallery to foundation to museum in five decades, Leslie-Lohman's collection mirrors shifting histories of LGBTQ social movements in the United States. Queer Holdings presents 200 objects from the Museum's vast permanent collection, and gathers texts that explore history and provenance, genre and subject matter, and engage in critical conversations about gender and race in the Museum's collection. Queer Holdings offers an institution's possible futures by revisiting its past.

Publication/Creation

Munich : Hirmer Verlag, [2019]

Physical description

264 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 26 cm

Notes

"Queer Holdings grew out of the exhibition Expanded Visions : Fifty Years of Collecting (2017) co-curated by Rob Hugh Rosen and Branden C. Wallace at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, with support by Deborah Bright and James M. Saslow"--Page 264.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

(Im)Permanent collection / Hugh Ryan -- Beyond dick art / Tirza True Latimer -- Archiving matters / Sur Rodney (Sur) -- UNTITLED (For those who are not named) / Vivian A. Crockett -- Queer affections / Ramzi Fawaz -- Personal affront to gender and we are a gender / Chris E. Vargas.

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    History of Medicine
    TPO.AL
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ISBN

  • 9783777431932
  • 3777431931