Stonewall Book Award
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Edition 39 (2012) Winner
Jonathan David Katz
ジョナサン・デイヴィッド・カッツ
Jonasan Deividdo Kattsu
Aliases:
Jonathan D. Katz
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1958 （St. Louis, Missouri）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Judaism
Career
- Occupations
- Educator, writer, art historian, activist
- Active Years
- 1990-2024
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, City College of San Francisco, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Memberships
- Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | — | Art History | Ph.D. | — | United States |
Northwestern University
Art History
Degree:
Ph.D.
Year of Graduation:
1996
Country:
United States
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Homosexualization of American Art: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Closet
Art HistoryExamines the impact of same-sex desire in postwar American art through key artists.
queergendersexualityart history
Bibliography
- "Re-viewing the Field: Queer Studies in Art History", Art History, 1999
- "John Cage's Queer Silence or How to Avoid Making Matters Worse", GLQ, Duke University Press, April, 1999
- "Performative Silence and the Politics of Passivity," in Making a Scene, ed. Henry Rogers, Birmingham University Press, 1999
- "Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic", Performing the Body/Performing the Text, eds. Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, New York: Routledge Press, 1999
- Difference/Indifference: Musings on Duchamp and Cage, coauthored with Moira Roth, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998
- "Lovers and Divers: Picturing a Partnership in Rauschenberg and Johns", Frauen/Kunst/Wissenschaft, Berlin, June 1998
- "Rauschenberg and the Guggenheim", Out Magazine, April 1998
- "Rauschenberg's Honeymoon", Art & Text, no. 16 (May–July), 1998
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- scholarly analysistheoretical approachqueer theory
- Recurring Motifs
- gendersexualitysame-sex desirepop art
Legacy
Founding figure in queer art history, responsible for the very first queer scholarship on a number of artists beginning in the early 1990s. Has curated more queer art exhibitions than anyone else in the world.
Trivia
- Founder of the Harvey Milk Institute, the largest queer studies institute in the world.
- Co-founder of Queer Nation San Francisco.
- First tenured faculty in gay and lesbian studies in the United States.
- In 1995, kicked out of Rauschenberg conference at the Guggenheim for mentioning his relationship with Johns.