1st Edition
Everyday Joys in Twenty-First Century Queer American Painting Ecstatic Ordinarinesses
By David Deutsch
Copyright 2024
166 Pages
15 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
15 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
15 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life.
To do so, it offers the first sustained study of five individually renowned twenty-first-century queer painters—Gio Black Peter, Doron Langberg, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Salman Toor, and João Gabriel—who have achieved substantial recognition... Read more
Introduction: Encountering Ecstatic Ordinarinesses in Queer Art: An Introduction to Everyday Ecstasies 1. Gio Black Peter’s Sublime Subway Maps: Reading the Routes of a Queer New York City, and Beyond 2. At Rest in Love and in Love with Rest: Everyday Intimacies in the Paintings of Doron Langberg 3. Salman Toor’s Enrapturing Contacts: Communicating Joy and Sorrow through the Technologies of Everyday Interactions 4. Ecstatic Queer Nature: Flowers, Seeds, and Everyday Joys in the Painting of Jonathan Lyndon Chase Conclusion: João Gabriel’s Ordinary Historical Ecstasy
Biography
David Deutsch is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at The University of Alabama.
