| Title | : | Kiss My Genders |
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| ISBN | : | 1853323640 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781853323645 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 |
| Publication | : | Published August 20, 2019 |
Kiss My Genders celebrates more than 30 international artists whose work explores and challenges traditional gender categories. The book features works from the late 1960s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. These include Lyle Ashton Harris, Sadie Benning, Nayland Blake, Jimmy DeSana, Chitra Ganesh, Peter Hujar, Juliana Huxtable, Zoe Leonard, Renate Lorenz and Pauline Boudry, Kent Monkman, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Christina Quarles and Del LaGrace Volcano, among many others. Working across mediums, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty and representations of the human form.
From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the "monstrous" or "freaky," from the politics of pose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these artists throws light on a different way of seeing.
From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the "monstrous" or "freaky," from the politics of pose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these artists throws light on a different way of seeing.
Kiss My Genders Reviews
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Beautiful, beautiful catalogue! I had the pleasure to see this exhibition in London last summer and I picked up this book, since I was intrigued to know more. Apart from the exquisitely crafted pictures of the pieces, Kiss My Genders features a selection of poetry and essays that elaborate on specific topics and provide precious insight into the display itself, following a queer-centred perspective — which I loved. 5/5
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enjoyed the art although the essays were a bit academic for me
