Painting beyond itself : the medium in the post-medium condition / Isabelle Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Includes bibliographic references

New from the ongoing publication series from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Pink Labor addresses the crossover of form and politics in visual representations of gender, sexuality and desire. Contradictory standpoints of queer art practices, conceptions of the body, and ideas of queer abstraction, a term coined by USC gender studies professor Judith Jack Halberstam, are of particular interest in several essays on artworks and art practices in this substantial illustrated reader. In addition to testimonials from queer performers on the topic of drag, the book includes interviews, essays, collages and personal writings. Placing contemporary art practices in historical perspective and revising the perceived divergence between artistic attitudes and formal approach, this publication offers refreshingly diverse and thought-provoking points of view