Julio Galan

The Art of Performative Transgression

By: Teresa Eckmann

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Paperback | 15 May 2024

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296 Pages

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From his provincial origins in the small northern Mexico town of MA?zquiz, Coahuila, to his meteoric rise in Manhattan's East Village art scene, to having achieved international standing at the time of his early death at forty-seven, Julio GalA!n was radically transgressive. The artist extended contemporary Mexican painting beyond the cultural criticism of Neo-Mexicanism (neomexicanismo), redefining Mexican identity as gender-expansive in his art. GalA!n combined gender-fluid imagery, his performative persona, queer self-representation, and cross-cultural visual and textual references to create large-scale, layered, dialogical visual puzzles. An artist ahead of his time, GalA!n's content and imagery is relevant to contemporary LGBTQ+ social movements.

Replete with full-color reproductions of GalA!n's artwork and photographic material, Teresa Eckmann's book serves as the first English-language monograph on the artist's life and work. Anyone interested in art in Mexico and Latin America will find this book an indispensable addition to their library, and it will be a core book on the study of this artist for decades to come.

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"This book will become an indispensable touchstone for anyone studying Julio Galan." - Raphael Rubinstein, author of Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002

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