Jonathan Katz Art Historian University at Buffalo and Independent Curator

Jonathan David Katz
Jonathan David Katz at the Academy of Copenhagen in 2015 during the Symposium Archival Bias: Constructing, Coding and Curating Crowdsourced Athenaeum
Built-in	1958 (historic period 63–64) St. Louis, Missouri
Occupation	Educator, author, fine art historian
Genre	Queer studies, art history
Subject area	Post war and contemporary cultural history

Jonathan David Katz (born 1958) is an American activist, art historian, educator and writer. He is currently Associate Professor of Practice in Art History and Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Biography [edit]

Katz is a founding figure in queer art history, responsible for the very first queer scholarship on a number of artists showtime in the early 1990s. His scholarship spans a menstruum from the late 19th-century to the present, with an emphasis on the US, simply with serious attention to Europe, Latin America and Asia likewise. He has written extensively about gender, sexuality and desire, producing some of the central theoretical work in queer studies in the visual arts. Katz has curated more than queer fine art exhibitions than anyone else in the globe.

He is too the former executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University.^{[1] [2]} He is a quondam chair of the Section of Lesbian and Gay studies at the City College of San Francisco, and was the kickoff tenured faculty in gay and lesbian studies in the United States.^{[one] [two]} Katz was an associate professor in the Art History Department at the State Academy of New York at Stony Brook, where he as well taught queer studies.^[2] He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern Academy in 1996.

Katz is the founder of the Harvey Milk Constitute, the largest queer studies establish in the earth, and the Queer Caucus for Fine art of the College Fine art Association.^[2]

Katz co-founded Queer Nation San Francisco.^[two] He has fabricated scholarly contributions to queer studies the focus of his professional career.^[2] He was the first artistic director of the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco and has published widely in the United States and Europe.^[2]

His forthcoming book, The Homosexualization of American Art: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Cupboard, will be published by the University of Chicago Press.^[2] An internationally recognized expert in queer postwar American art, Katz has recently published "Jasper Johns' Alley Oop: On Comic Strips and Cover-up" in Schwule Bildwelten im 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Thomas Roeske, and "The Silent Army camp: Queer Resistance and the Rise of Pop Art," in Plop! Goes the World, edited past Serge Guilbaut.^[2] In 1995, Katz was kicked out of Rauschenberg conference at the Guggenheim for mentioning Rauschenberg'south relationship with Johns.^[three]

Katz was co-curator with David C. Ward and Jenn Sichel of the exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Want in American Portraiture" at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. This was the beginning major museum exploration of the bear upon of same-sex want in the creation of modern American portraiture. David Wojnarowicz'due south video "A Fire in My Belly" was removed from the exhibition on November xxx, 2010, causing controversy.^[4] Katz was non consulted before the work's removal.^[v]

His recent Chicago About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, at 500 works the largest queer exhibition yet mounted, was 1 of the rare art shows that featured a bulk of artists who were neither male nor white, and was favorably reviewed on the front folio art department of the New York Times.^[half-dozen]

Works [edit]

• "Re-viewing the Field: Queer Studies in Fine art History", Art History, 1999
• "John Muzzle's Queer Silence or How to Avoid Making Matters Worse", GLQ, Duke Academy Press, April, 1999. Reprinted in Here Comes Everybody: The Music Poetry and Art of John Cage, ed. David Bernstein, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999^[2]
• "Performative Silence and the Politics of Passivity," in Making a Scene, ed. Henry Rogers, Birmingham University Printing, 1999^[ii]
• "Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Trunk Politic", Performing the Body/Performing the Text, eds. Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, New York: Routledge Press, 1999
• Difference/Indifference: Musings on Duchamp and Muzzle, coauthored with Moira Roth, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998^[2]
• "Lovers and Divers: Picturing a Partnership in Rauschenberg and Johns", Frauen/Kunst/Wissenschaft, Berlin, June 1998
• "Rauschenberg and the Guggenheim", Out Mag, April 1998
• "Rauschenberg's Honeymoon", Art & Text, no. 16 (May–July), 1998

See also [edit]

• David C. Ward

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Branch, Mark Alden (April 2003). "Back in the Fold". Yale Alumni Mag. YaleAlumniMagazine.com. Archived from the original on May half dozen, 2009. Retrieved June four, 2009.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f m h i j k l} "Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale: Jonathan David Katz". Yale.edu (Internet Archive). December 25, 2005. Archived from the original on December 25, 2005. Retrieved June four, 2009.
3. ^ Weinstein, Steve (June xx, 2012). "Gay Museum Wars: Victory? Or a Truce?". The Hamlet Vocalization.
4. ^ Taylor, Kate (December 15, 2010). "Curators Criticize Controversial Art'due south Removal". The New York Times.
5. ^ Jacqueline Trescott (1990-04-21). "After Smithsonian exhibit'due south removal, banned ant video all the same creeps into gallery". Washingtonpost.com . Retrieved 2010-12-07 .
6. ^ Lubow, Arthur (2019-08-02). "In Chicago, Overlooked Achievements by 50.G.B.T.Q. Artists (Published 2019)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-05 .

External links [edit]

• Intro to Works - Queer Cultural Center
• Resume (1981-2010) - Queer Cultural Heart
• California Thinkers
• 300 Years of Queer History at Yale (pdf)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_David_Katz

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