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Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art

English

By (author): David J. Getsy

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, 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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Product Details
  • Weight: 1193g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jan 2023
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780226817064

About David J. Getsy

David J. Getsy is the Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender; Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture; and Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain 18771905. His edited volumes include Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance 19651975 and Queer an anthology of artists writings.

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