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1. On Not Making Boys: David Smith, Frank O’Hara, and Gender Assignment
David J. Getsy
Description: Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
David Smith once said starkly about his sculptures, “Well, they’re all girls, Frank….I don’t make boy sculptures.” The “Frank” in...
Author
David J. Getsy
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2015 by David Getsy
Related print edition pages: pp.43-95
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00005.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15558
Chapter subject tags:Gender identity in artAbstract Expressionism--United StatesSculpture, American--20th centurySmith, David, 1906-1965O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966Art criticism--United States--History--20th centurySculpture, Abstract--United States--20th century

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1. On Not Making Boys: David Smith, Frank O’Hara, and Gender Assignment