32101
Advanced Seminar
SoSe 21: Queer Histories of U.S. Art, 1950s to 1990s
David John Getsy
Comments
In the wake of the Second World War, demographic shifts fostered new concentrations of lesbian, gay, and otherwise non-heterosexual people in U.S. cities starting in the 1950s. Visual art that addressed these increasingly visible communities began to flourish in these decades, and this course will track the shifts in the queer production of art during this time. We will examine the transition from highly coded and covert registrations of queer lives in the 1950s to the forthrightness and activism that emerged after the Stonewall uprising in 1969 to the rage of the 1980s spurred by government inaction on the AIDS crisis. The course will be structured around case studies that examine changing attitudes toward the politics of visibility, the question of assimilation, the need for radical refusal, and the disruption of norms and naturalized roles. Throughout, our examinations will be focused on larger questions for the history and historiography of U.S. art, including the erasure of non-white subjects from queer art historical narratives, the appropriation of transgender histories by queer art and politics, and the continuing institutional censorship of queer art. Please register at: culture@jfki.fu-berlin.de with your name, matriculation number, study program, home university (if applicable), zedat email address or email address of home university, and type of exchange program (if applicable). close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2021-04-14 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-04-21 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-04-28 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-05-05 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-05-12 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-05-19 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-05-26 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-06-02 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-06-09 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-06-16 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-06-23 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-06-30 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-07-07 18:00 - 20:00
Wed, 2021-07-14 18:00 - 20:00