{"title":"Flora Dunster","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlora Dunster’s works explore the intersections of art, identity, and history with a distinctive and thoughtful voice. Through titles like \u003cem\u003eHurled Towards the Future\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePhotography – A Queer History\u003c\/em\u003e, her writing invites readers to reconsider visual culture and its ties to personal and collective experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted firmly in \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, her books blend critical insight with nuanced storytelling, offering perspectives that challenge conventional narratives and celebrate diversity in creative expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"photography-a-queer-history","title":"Photography – A Queer History","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotography – A Queer History\u003c\/em\u003e examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create, and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow has photography advanced fights against LGBTQ+ discrimination? How have artists used photography to develop a queer aesthetic? How has the production and circulation of photography served to satisfy the queer desire for images and created transnational solidarities?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotography – A Queer History\u003c\/em\u003e includes the work of 84 artists. It spans different historical and national contexts, and through a mix of thematic essays and artist-centred texts brings young photographers into conversation with canonical images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45712683827436,"sku":"9781781578698","price":95.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781781578698.jpg?v=1725990328"},{"product_id":"hurled-towards-the-future-by-flora-dunster-9781913107543","title":"Hurled Towards the Future","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first art-historical account of photography from London's lesbian sex-radical scene\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHurled Towards the Future\u003c\/em\u003e explores how lesbian photographers in late 1980s and early 1990s London worked within a climate of resistance and possibility to imagine—and create—a queer future. Focusing on the work of Tessa Boffin and Del LaGrace Volcano, this book argues that, through their photography, these artists made a critical contribution to the reclamation of \"queer\" as both a political identification and an aesthetic practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChallenging the idea that queer politics and aesthetics developed solely through activism around HIV\/AIDS, \u003cem\u003eHurled Towards the Future\u003c\/em\u003e offers an alternative account that locates this history in a Britain shaped by Section 28, the sex wars, and a series of debates around pornography and representation. While those disputes often sought to fix the meaning of \"lesbian\" and \"feminist,\" Boffin and Volcano moved in a different direction, and created work that used performance, parody, and fantasy to ask \"what if?\" of gender and sexuality—reimagining these terms as open, fluid, and radically inclusive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first art-historical study of London's lesbian sex-radical scene, \u003cem\u003eHurled Towards the Future\u003c\/em\u003e features its most iconic photographs and includes previously unpublished materials from Boffin's archive. It also provides a new reading of Volcano's early practice, positioning both artists in relation to British photo theory and the tools it offered to challenge the idea of \"natural\" gender and sexuality. These threads are brought together through the book's articulation of the subjunctive—a mood at work in these artists' photographs that insists on possibility, and on the political force of imagining otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650551202028,"sku":"9781913107543","price":147.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781913107543-hurled-towards-the-future.jpg?v=1779326878"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/flora-dunster.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}