Daniel Thomas
I primarily study 20th and 21st Century American art and visual culture, with a focus on queer, trans*, and queer of color subjectivity and the hermeneutics of abstract visual expression. My specific scholarly interests in art history include transgender representation and aesthetics, AIDS cultural activism and visual rhetoric, the legacies of second-wave feminist video, performance, and criticism, and the interplay between abstract expressionist painting, US nationalism, and hegemonic whiteness. I also examine the framing and contextualizing role of museum and gallery practices and approaches to historiography. My theoretical framework is influenced by a range of critics, including José Esteban Muñoz, Susan Stryker, Sara Ahmed, Deleuze and Guattari, and Stuart Hall. I have written on a diverse array of artists, from canonical figures such as Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to prominent contemporary artists like Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, and Vincent Fecteau, as well as ascendant and developing talents such as Rosha Yaghmai, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Carol Bove.
Supervisors: Jacqueline Francis, Glen Helfand, Kathy Zarur, and Jez Flores-García
Supervisors: Jacqueline Francis, Glen Helfand, Kathy Zarur, and Jez Flores-García
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Artists in the second half of the Twentieth Century included letterforms in their images to speak directly to this bifurcation. Through formal devices, like the expressiveness of Basquiat’s scrawl, or conceptual devices such as Corita Kent’s appropriation of the General Mills logo, these artists foil the interpellation of pure language to reveal peculiar affects and individuated understandings.
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Artists in the second half of the Twentieth Century included letterforms in their images to speak directly to this bifurcation. Through formal devices, like the expressiveness of Basquiat’s scrawl, or conceptual devices such as Corita Kent’s appropriation of the General Mills logo, these artists foil the interpellation of pure language to reveal peculiar affects and individuated understandings.