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Abstract bodies : sixties sculpture in the expanded field of gender

Abstract bodies : sixties sculpture in the expanded field of gender

Book 2015

"Original and theoretically astute, Abstract Bodies is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender's mutability and multiplicity. In that decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to explore the human as an implicit reference. Even as the statue and the figure...