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Author(s):	David J. Getsy

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0226817067
Pages:	384	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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The first book to chart Scott Burtons performance art and sculpture of the 1970s.

Scott Burton (193989) 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 spacemost importantly, street cruisingas foundations for rethinking the audiences and possibilities of art. This first book on the artist examines Burtons 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 Burtons 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 Burtons life in New Yorks art communities, 
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