Publications

BOOKS

Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022)

Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015; reissued in paperback 2023)

(ed.) Queer, Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art Series (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2016). * 29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards finalist for “Best LGBTQ Anthology” (2017) * In its third printing.

(co-ed.) Trans Cultural Production, special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.4 (November 2014), co-edited with Julian B. Carter and Trish Salah

(ed.) Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965–1975 (Soberscove Press, 2012). * Winner of SAIC’s 2015 Jean Goldman Book Prize *

(ed.) From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth Century Art (Penn State University Press, 2011)

Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010)

Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004)

(ed.) Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c.1880–1930 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)

SELECTED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

“The Spectacle of Privacy: Geoffrey Hendricks’s Ring Piece and the Ambivalence of Queer Visibility,” The Art Bulletin 104.3 (September 2022): 117-45.

“How to Teach Manet’s Olympia after Transgender Studies,” Art History 45.2 (April 2022): 342-69.

(Co-authored with Che Gossett) “A Syllabus on Trans and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History,” Art Journal 80, no. 4 (Winter 2021): 100-15. * Winner of the 2022 Award for Distinction given by the College Art Association for most distinguished contribution published in Art Journal in 2021. * Republished open access on Art Journal Open.

“Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction,” in Jared Ledesma, ed., Queer Abstraction, exh. cat. (Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 2019), 65-75.

“Scott Burton, Two-Part Chair, 1986,” in Jonathan Weinberg et al., eds., Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989, exh. cat. (Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art, 2019), 132-33.

“A Sight to Withhold: David J. Getsy on Cassils,” Artforum (February 2018)

“Queer Relations,” ASAP/Journal 2.2, special issue: “Queer Form” (May 2017): 254–57‌

“Acts of Stillness: Statues, Performativity, and Passive Resistance,” Criticism 56.1 (Spring 2014), 1-20.

“Exalting the Unremarkable: Van Gogh’s Poet’s Garden and Gauguin’s Bedroom,” in Gloria Groom, ed., Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016), 36–49.

“Laying it Down: Heroic Reclining Men and Other Tactical Inversions,” in Eugenie Tsai, et al., eds., Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, exh. cat. (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2015), 94–99

“Capacity,” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1, special issue: “Post-posttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies” (Spring 2014): 47–49.

“Queer Formalisms: Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy in Conversation,” Art Journal 73.4 (Winter 2013): 58-71. Republished open access on Art Journal Open.

“Queer Exercises: Amber Hawk Swanson’s Performances of Self-Realization,” GLQ 19.4 (Fall 2013): 465–85.

“Playing in the Sand with Picasso: Relief Sculpture as Game in the Summer of 1930,” in D. Getsy, ed., From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth Century Art (Penn State Univ. Press, 2011), 80–93.

“Mourning, Yearning, Cruising: Ernesto Pujol’s Memorial Gestures,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 90 (September 2008): 11–24.

“Tactility or Opticality, Henry Moore or David Smith: Herbert Read and Clement Greenberg on the Art of Sculpture, 1956,” Sculpture Journal 17.2 (2008) reprinted in R. Peabody, ed., Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945–1975 (Getty Museum, 2011).

“Recognizing the Homoerotic: The Uses of Intersubjectivity in John Addington Symonds’s 1887 Essays on Art,” Visual Culture in Britain 8.1 (Spring 2007): 37–57.

“Fallen Women: The Gender of Horizontality and the Abandonment of the Pedestal by Giacometti and Epstein,” in A. Gerstein, ed., Display and Displacement (Holberton, 2007), 114–29.

“Privileging the Object of Sculpture: Actuality and Harry Bates’s Pandora of 1890,” Art History 28.1 (February 2005): 74–95.