Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art by Simmons, William J.

Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art

In this provocative and intensely personal new book of essays about love and language, desire and drama,...
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Author: William J. Simmons
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Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art by Simmons, William J.

Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art

CHF 54.68

Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art

CHF 54.68
Author: William J. Simmons
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In this provocative and intensely personal new book of essays about love and language, desire and drama, reminiscence, change, and fandom, William J. Simmons takes up Eve Sedgwick's reparative reading as a challenge to empirical and taxonomical approaches to art, music, and film and instead promotes new ways of discussing them that create community and empathy rather than hierarchies. Specifically, Simmons advocates for incorporating memoir, history, theory, poetry, and even "the cringey admissions of a fanboy" into criticism.

Love and Degradation argues for queer feminism's value to reading and thinking about works by creators as varied as Lana Del Rey, Charlotte Bront?, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and filmmaker Steve McQueen. It also includes essays on Glenn Ligon, Barbara Kruger, and Kristen Stewart. In essence, the essays in this volume represent a series of the author's "saviors, obsessions, and losses."

A compelling read for students and scholars of art history, queer and gender studies, creative writing, and the study of film, television, and pop culture, this book encourages readers to embrace fandom and raises important questions about the state of queer and feminist discourse.



Author: William J. Simmons
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 12/03/2024
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.51w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780271098944

About the Author

William J. Simmons is a writer based in the Santa Clarita Valley. He is the author of Queer Formalism: The Return.


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