A master class/seminar will be held with David Getsy.

There is a set of readings to be read in advance of the workshop (all short). Please use the following links to access the readings or download a PDF of the David Getsy Seminar Readings (warning: this is a 10.5 MB file):

Required Readings

Excerpts

1. Preface and “Introduction: ‘New’ Genders and Sculpture in the 1960s,” in Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale University Press, 2015). PAGES xi-xvii, 1-5, 26-41.
2. “Queer Relations,” ASAP/Journal 2.2 (May 2017): 254-57
3. “Refusing Ambiguity,” in Carlos Motta, John Arthur Peetz, and Carlos Maria Romero, eds., The SPIT! Manifesto Reader (London: Frieze Projects, 2017), 61-62.
4. “Seeing Commitments: Jonah Groeneboer’s Ethics of Discernment,” Temporary Art Review (8 March 2016), n.p.
5. “A Sight to Withhold: David J. Getsy on Cassils,” Artforum (February 2018), 57-60

Further Reference

(not required)

1. “Abstract Bodies and Otherwise: Amelia Jones and David Getsy on Gender and Sexuality in the Writing of Art History,” caa.reviews (posted 16 February 2018)
2. “Appearing Differently: Abstraction’s Transgender and Queer Capacities,” interview by W. Simmons, in C. Erharter, et al., Pink Labour on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015), 38-55.
3. “Queer Formalisms: Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy in Conversation,” Art Journal 72.4 (Winter 2013): 58-71.
4. “Conclusion: Abstraction and the Unforeclosed,” in Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale University Press, 2015), 266-80.

David J. Getsy is the Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His research focuses on the history of sculpture and performance, with an emphasis on the constitutive roles that genders and sexualities play the making and the viewing of art. His books include Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905 (Yale 2004), Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (Yale 2010), Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965-1975 (Soberscove 2012), Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale 2015), and most recently the anthology of artists’ writings, Queer, for the Whitechapel Gallery’s “Documents of Contemporary Art” book series (MIT 2016). He is currently writing a book about Scott Burton’s performance art of the 1970s and is curating the retrospective exhibition Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble, opening in September 2018 at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/davidgetsy/