In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice

Nayland Blake; Lawrence Rinder; Amy Scholder [ Eds. ]

ISBN 10: 087286300X / ISBN 13: 9780872863002

Published by City Lights, San Francisco, 1995

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A very good copy of the first softcover edition, first printing (full number line). The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine and minor wear at the extremities. A sharp copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice
• Publisher: City Lights, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087286300X
• ISBN 13: 9780872863002
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In a Different Light documents a landmark exhibition at the University Art Museum, and features curatorial essays, over 100 reproductions of all the artwork in the exhibition, and a selection of fiction, personal essays, rants, and image-text projects on the power of visual culture. This book explores the resonances of gay, lesbian and queer experience in American culture, particularly in the past thirty years.
In a Different Light engages a range of queer issues, aesthetic concerns, and formal styles. Instead of inquiring "What does lesbian or gay art look like?" the curators ask: "How are queer artists looking at the world?" This is the first time that a major American museum has considered this important subject in a broad cross-generational context. The inclusion of literary work in the context of this exhibition catalog brings into focus the relationships between artists and writers in lesbian and gay culture, the interaction of genres and media in these representations, and the impact of visual culture - the arts, popular iconography, advertising, and style - on the formation of identity.