Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting cultural milieu, the book uses a unique methodology that draws on queer theory, dance studies and the analysis of movement, deportment and gesture to look anew at familiar artists and artworks, but also to bring to light queer artistic figures’ key cultural contributions to the 1960s New York art world. Illustrated with rarely published images and written in clear and fluid prose, Horizontal together will appeal to specialists and general readers interested in the study of modern and contemporary art, dance and queer history.
Price: £30.00
Pages: 208
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
Publication Date:
10 December 2024
ISBN: 9781526182517
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
ART / Performance, History of art, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, Performance art, Contemporary dance
'Paisid Aramphongphan brings together theories of dance, queer studies, and fine art to lay a glittering tapestry of connection and conversation across the practitioners of the period... Horizontal together is a hopeful work that offers new insight and critique in the service of a more inclusive historical practice.'
Fen Kennedy, Dance Research Journal
Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York has been nominated for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize.
Shortlisted for the 2022 de la Torre Bueno Dance Studies Book Prize
Paisid Aramphongphan is an independent scholar. He holds a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University and is a winner of the Terra Foundation International Essay Prize.
Introduction: a dancerly art history
1 The moves that queer bodies make
2 The queer horizontal repertoire: Andy Warhol and Jack Smith lie down
3 Plastiques: Jack Smith, Ruth St. Denis, and the dance of gestures
4 Dancing queers: Andy Warhol, Fred Herko, and the A-Men
5 Repetition and queer difference: Fred Herko’s history lesson
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