Deep cuts : transgender history in US-American art after World War II
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- During World War II, Nazi occupation forced the centers of modern art and transsexual medicine to move from Europe to the United States. This dissertation explores the legacy of this convergence in modern and contemporary American art and supports the continued growth of transgender art history as a distinct subfield. In this project, I contend that works by and featuring Forrest Bess (1911-1977), Candy Darling (1944-1974), Greer Lankton (1958-1996), Cassils (b. 1975), and Chris E. Vargas (b. 1978) do at least three things: first, they show how social and scientific histories have shaped the ways in which gender transformation has appeared (or disappeared) in art history from WWII to the present moment; second, they demonstrate why works of art in particular are central to constructing a visually and materially rich transgender history; and third, they further argue for the strengths and limitations that painting, photography, and sculpture each have in addressing transgender embodiment.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Metzger, Cyle Michalka |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Meyer, Richard, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Meyer, Richard, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Kwon, Marci |
| Thesis advisor | Stryker, Susan |
| Thesis advisor | Troy, Nancy J |
| Degree committee member | Kwon, Marci |
| Degree committee member | Stryker, Susan |
| Degree committee member | Troy, Nancy J |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Cyle Michalka Metzger. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/zt094rb4985 |
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- Copyright
- © 2021 by Cyle Michalka Metzger
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