While queer and trans are often related and overlapping identities, they are distinct and not interchangeable. This lecture is an overview of different strategies used by queer artists. (other possiblethemes not engaged here: camp/performance/embodiment).In summary, here are the themes that will be addressed in this lecture: Many of them are in dialogue with art history. In recent decades, art historians have contextualized images of homosexuality and homoeroticism that appear throughout the history of art and visual culture, revising and expanding our understanding of representations of same sex desire, romance, and companionship. A global survey of queer art would include art from Greece, Rome, China Peru, India, Mexico, as well as the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods.
David Halperin, “Is There a History of Sexuality?”, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds.Queer (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art. Harmony Hammond, Lesbian Art in America (New York: Rizzoli, 2000).Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David M. Richard Meyer, Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Queer Art and Culture.Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture (Washington DC: Smithsonian Books, 2010).