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Criticism Without Authority : Gene Swenson's and Jill Johnston's Queer Practices.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sichel, Jennifer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swenson, Gene, 1934-1969.
- Johnston, Jill, 1929-2010.
- Arts, American.
- Aesthetic movement (Art).
- Local Subjects:
- Swenson, Gene, 1934-1969.
- Johnston, Jill, 1929-2010.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A reframing of the history of 1960s New York avant-garde art centered on the queer, genre-bending criticism of Gene Swenson and Jill Johnston.In the early 1960s, Gene Swenson and Jill Johnston began to imagine art criticism as something unruly and expansive, rejecting modernist appeals to purity and coherence that had overtaken the field.
- Contents:
- Introduction : An impure situation
- What do you say about homosexuals? Gene Swenson's other tradition
- The disintegration of a critic : Gene Swenson's and Jill Johnston's protests and panels
- lesbianlesbianlesbianlesbianlesbianlesbianlesbianlesbian : Jill Johnston's feminist solutions
- Conclusion : Revolutions deferred.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-84283-5
- 9780226842837
- OCLC:
- 1551396030
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