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Multiple and One by Alpesh Kantilal Patel

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This book examines queer and trans* global art practices through creolization, opacity and curatorial knowledge-making, offering decolonising approaches to art history across transcultural contexts from South Florida to Europe, the Americas and east Asia.

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Multiple and One by Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Multiple and One examines queer and trans* global art practices through the intertwined lenses of creolisation, opacity and archipelagic thinking. Centring artworks by LGBT*Q creatives alongside pieces less explicitly concerned with gender or sexuality, the study offers an approach to decolonising art history grounded in materiality, autotheory and curatorial knowledge-making. Moving between South Florida, eastern Europe, the Americas and east Asia, it maps how transcultural exchange informs artistic production and critical method. Short interludes focused on exhibitions or individual artworks provide reflective transitions, highlighting how storytelling and errantry shape interpretive practice. The book foregrounds the planetary and the cosmic as ethical and conceptual frameworks, articulating alternatives to nationalist and cisheteropatriarchal narratives. Through its interdisciplinary approach, it proposes new models for writing global queer art histories attentive to place, relation and material form.
Alpesh Kantilal Patel is Associate Professor of Art History at Temple University
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ISBN 13 9781807075927
ISBN 10 1807075923
Title Multiple and One
Author Alpesh Kantilal Patel
Series Rethinking Art's Histories
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2027-02-15
Number of pages 368
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