David J. Getsy | Queer Behavior, Abstract Bodies, and other books

books

Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art

Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

Queer [Documents of Contemporary Art]

Magic Episodes and Other Synchronicities: The Transhemispheric Correspondence of Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa, 1970–1980

Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965–1975

Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture

From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art

Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905

Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c.1880–1930

Authored
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Winner of the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award

Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale University Press, 2015)
Now in paperback

Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (Yale University Press, 2010)

Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905 (Yale University Press, 2004)

Edited
Magic Episodes and Other Synchronicities: The Transhemispheric Correspondence of Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa, 1970–1980, co-edited with Patrick Greaney (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming May 2026)

Queer, Whitechapel Gallery Documents of Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2016)

Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965–1975 (Soberscove Press, 2012)

From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011)

Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c.1880–1930 (Ashgate, 2004)

Edited journal issues
(co-edited with Julian B. Carter and Trish Salah) “Trans Cultural Production,” special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly vol. 1, no. 4 (2014)

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