SAIC’s chair of art history, David Getsy, is industrious and sensuous as he reaches back into the annals of art history and also speaks with urgency to contemporary practices that deal with queer and trans issues. For Getsy, “queer” is a verb and a quality that undermines norms which can be located in even unlikely artworks. His much-anticipated forthcoming 2015 book “Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender” develops queer arguments about sculpture made of straight artists—a must read for anyone looking at how queer theory operates in art.
