Art History

A queer little history of art (on order): OMany artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical or tender, discreetly coded or defiantly outspoken. This book illustrates the wide variety of queer art from around the world

 Queer spaces : an atlas of LGBTQIA+ places and stories: Film-makers, artists, planners, activists, urban geographers, researchers, writers write about queer spaces around the world that mean something to them.

Dragging away : queer abstraction in contemporary art: Argues that abstraction is a tactic of queering in contemporary art that contributes to critical politics of gender, sexuality, and race, while refusing oppressive representational logics

Queer edited by David Etsy: (on order) "A book of artists' queer tactics and infectious concepts. By definition, there can be no singular “queer art.” ... centered on artists' writings, numerous conversations about queer practice are brought together from diverse individual, social and cultural contexts. Together these texts describe and examine the ways in which artists have used the concept of queer ..."

Diedrick Brackens : darling divined (on order):  "Brackens constructs intricately woven textiles that speak to the complexities of Black and queer identity in the United States. He foregrounds the loaded associations of cotton, which is enmeshed in the history of the transatlantic slave trade, and inscribes his weavings with symbolic materials and figures that probe the tangled threads of American history."

Art and queer culture (on order)

Queer objects: Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, ... But what makes an object queer? 

Queer and trans artists of color : stories of some of our lives

Pink labor on golden streets : queer art practices (on order)

 Unruly visions : the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora: Brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture