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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

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 History

Examines 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.