David J. Getsy

is a historian of art and performance. His latest book, Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art, received the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award. His previous books include Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender; Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture; Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965–1975; and the anthology of artists writings, Queer. He teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is the Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History.