The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media presents a visiting scholar lecture by
David Getsy
Friday, April 25 at 11:00 AM
Grace Street Theater
934 W Grace St, Richmond, VA 23220
David J. Getsy is the Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (Chicago 2022), which received the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication on the history and criticism of modernism in the arts. He previously authored Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale 2015/2023); Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (Yale 2010); and Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905 (Yale 2004). His edited books include the anthology of artists’ writings Queer (MIT 2016); Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance (Soberscove, 2012); and From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art (Penn State, 2011). He and his co-author Che Gossett received the College Art Association’s Award for Distinction for their 2021 article “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History.”
David J. Getsy and Scott Burton’s Two-Part Chair (1986). Photo: Justin Staggs, November 2024
