Love and Degradation

Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art

William J. Simmons (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2024
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-09894-4 (ISBN)

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In this provocative and intensely personal new book of essays about love and language, desire and drama, reminiscence, change, and fandom, William J. Simmons takes up Eve Sedgwick’s reparative reading as a challenge to empirical and taxonomical approaches to art, music, and film and instead promotes new ways of discussing them that create community and empathy rather than hierarchies. Specifically, Simmons advocates for incorporating memoir, history, theory, poetry, and even “the cringey admissions of a fanboy” into criticism.

Love and Degradation argues for queer feminism’s value to reading and thinking about works by creators as varied as Lana Del Rey, Charlotte Brontë, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and filmmaker Steve McQueen. It also includes essays on Glenn Ligon, Barbara Kruger, and Kristen Stewart. In essence, the essays in this volume represent a series of the author’s “saviors, obsessions, and losses.”

A compelling read for students and scholars of art history, queer and gender studies, creative writing, and the study of film, television, and pop culture, this book encourages readers to embrace fandom and raises important questions about the state of queer and feminist discourse.

William J. Simmons is a writer based in the Santa Clarita Valley. He is the author of Queer Formalism: The Return.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Leaving Calabasas

1. The Presumption of Light: On Toyin Ojih Odutola’s The Treatment

2. Normative Desire / Narrative Desire and the Production of Love in Villette

3. Bad Feminism: On Queer-Feminist Relatability and the Production of Truth in Fleabag

4. Glenn Ligon’s Untitled (Negro Sunshine): Toward a Queer Theory of Post-Critique

5. “Banality Is Sometimes Striking”: On Felix Gonzalez-Torres

6. On Affect and Criticality in Steve McQueen’s Widows

7. A Paucity of Words (for Kristin Scott Thomas)

8. Borderline Personality Disorder in Spencer (for Stankie)

9. Love and the Paraliterary: On Barbara Kruger’s Picture/Readings

10. Deborah Kass: Teenage Dream

Conclusion: There Is Only Love / Queerness Is Dead / You Said You Needed Space

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	re:criticisms
Zusatzinfo	8 Halftones, color; 5 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	University Park
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	0-271-09894-5 / 0271098945
ISBN-13	978-0-271-09894-4 / 9780271098944
Zustand	Neuware