As part of the Sexuality Studies Speakers Series, on January 6th, 2015 Professor Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University will present a talk entitled “Queering Art History” in RM 2017 Dunton Tower. He will discuss his two most recent books, What Was Contemporary Art? and Art and Queer Culture as part of a broader anti-normative impulse in artistic production and as a scholarly method of creative interpretation.
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Richard Meyer teaches courses in twentieth-century American art, the history of photography, arts censorship and the first amendment, curatorial practice, and gender and sexuality studies. His first book, Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2013, he published What Was Contemporary Art?, a study of the idea of "the contemporary" in early twentieth-century American art, and, with Catherine Lord, Art and Queer Culture, a survey focusing on the dialogue between visual art and non-normative sexualities from 1885 to the present.

Meyer’s visit is sponsored by the SSHRC, the Department of History, the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, the Department of English, the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and Sexuality Studies.