Jonathan David Katz

Jonathan David Katz

Jonathan David Katz (* 1958 ) is an American art historian and former chairman of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University . Katz is the past chairman of the Department of Lesbian and Gay Studies at City College of San Francisco . Katz worked as a research assistant for art history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught queer studies , among other things . He received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago . Katz is the founder of the Harvey Milk Institute , the largest queer studies institute worldwide. Katz is also a co-founder of Queer Nation San Francisco .

Katz is currently writing his book The Homosexualization of American Art: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Closet . The book is published by the University of Chicago Press . Katz is an internationally recognized expert in the field of queer postwar American art. Katz published the book Jasper Johns' Allegy Oop: On Comic Strips and Camouflage in Schwule Bildwelten in the 20th Century (edited by Thomas Roeske ) and the book The Silent Camp: Queer Resistance and the Rise of Pop Art in Plop! Goes the World (edited by Serge Guilbaut ).

Further publications (selection):

• "Articulate Silence: The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg", Kunstforum , Berlin, 1999
• "Re-viewing the Field: Queer Studies in Art History," Art History , 1999
• "John Cage's Queer Silence or How to Avoid Making Matters Worse", GLQ , Duke University Press, April, 1999. Reprinted in Here Comes Everybody: The Music Poetry and Art of John Cage , edited by David Bernstein, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
• "Silent Politics and the Performativity of Nothingness," Making a Scene , edited by Henry McCullen, Birmingham University Press, 1999
• "Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic," Performing the Body / Performing the Text , Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, New York: Routledge Press, 1999
• Difference / Indifference: Musings on Duchamp and Cage , co-author Moira Roth, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998
• "Lovers and Divers: Picturing a Partnership in Rauschenberg and Johns", Women / Art / Science , Berlin, June 1998
• "Rauschenberg and the Guggenheim", Out Magazine , April 1998
• "Rauschenberg's Honeymoon", Art & Text , Issue 16 (May – July), 1998

Web links

• Californian thinker
• 300 Years of Queer History at Yale (PDF document)