Queer Formalism: The Returnexpands upon William J. Simmons's original, influential essay Notes on Queer Formalism from 2013, offering novel ways of thinking aboutqueer feministart outside of the critical-complicit and abstract-representational binaries that continue to haunt contemporary queer art. It therefore proposes a new kind of queer art writing, one that skirts the limits imposed by normative histories of art and film.
Artists addressed inQueer Formalism: The Returninclude: Sally Mann, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Math Bass, Lorna Simpson, Laurie Simmons, Alex Prager, Lana Del Rey, Jessica Lange, and Louise Lawler,among others.