Everyday Joys in Twenty-First Century Queer American Painting

Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life.

David Deutsch is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at The University of Alabama.

Introduction: Encountering Ecstatic Ordinarinesses in Queer Art: An Introduction to Everyday Ecstasies 1. Gio Black Peter's Sublime Subway Maps: Reading the Routes of a Queer New York City, and Beyond 2. At Rest in Love and in Love with Rest: Everyday Intimacies in the Paintings of Doron Langberg 3. Salman Toor's Enrapturing Contacts: Communicating Joy and Sorrow through the Technologies of Everyday Interactions 4. Ecstatic Queer Nature: Flowers, Seeds, and Everyday Joys in the Painting of Jonathan Lyndon Chase Conclusion: João Gabriel's Ordinary Historical Ecstasy