Bound Together
Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art
Published on 6. January 2020
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-5261-4280-1 (ISBN)
Description
What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of the present? This book sheds light on an area long ignored by traditional art history and LGBTQ studies, examining the legacies of the visual and material cultures of US leather communities. It discusses the work of contemporary artists such as Patrick Staff, Dean Sameshima, Monica Majoli, AK Burns and AL Steiner, and the artist collective Die Kraenken, showing how archival histories and contemporary artistic projects might be applied in a broader analysis of LGBTQ culture and norms. Hanky codes, blurry photographs of Tom of Finland drawings, a pin sash weighted down with divergent histories - these become touchstones for writing leather histories. -- .
Reviews / Votes
'An elegantly disciplined page turner, Bound Together interweaves the various cultures of leather sex and the archive with solid research, sly humor, and patient interpretation. In this context, Campbell's sections on a selected group of contemporary and modern artists are particularly insightful.'Catherine Lord, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
'Sex is good to think with, but Andy Campbell's leathersex is even better. This exuberant, challenging, perceptive, cleverly crafted and generously illustrated study explores the role of BDSM in visual and material art, performance and archival practice - while, in the process, becoming its own sexual archive. A new kind of art history, Bound together transforms our comprehensions of sex and apprehensions of the archive.'
Professor Barry Reay, author of New York Hustlers and Sex in the Archives -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 colour illustrations and 71 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
810 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-4280-1 (9781526142801)
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1st Edition
Manchester University Press
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1st Edition
Manchester University Press
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Person
Andy Campbell is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at USC Roski School of Art and Design -- .
Content
List of plates
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: bound together
2 The work of the master's hand
3 How to talk about Tom
4 Yellow, or reading archives diagonally
5 Numbers
6 'Clubs that don't exist anymore'
7 Attached to history
8 'Deep fist at the Modern'
9 Conclusion: surrogates, envelopes
Select bibliography
Index -- .
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: bound together
2 The work of the master's hand
3 How to talk about Tom
4 Yellow, or reading archives diagonally
5 Numbers
6 'Clubs that don't exist anymore'
7 Attached to history
8 'Deep fist at the Modern'
9 Conclusion: surrogates, envelopes
Select bibliography
Index -- .