{"product_id":"flora-dunster-hurled-towards-the-future","title":"Flora Dunster: Hurled Towards the Future. Lesbian Photography and Queer Imagination in 1980's London (preorder signed copies)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"fe-block fe-block-a1f9fba6a4612630ecbc\" style=\"mix-blend-mode: normal;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-blend-mode=\"NORMAL\" data-block-type=\"2\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' id=\"block-a1f9fba6a4612630ecbc\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"summary\" class=\"entry-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHurled Towards the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores how lesbian photographers in late 1980s and early 1990s London worked within a climate of resistance and possibility to imagine—and create—a queer future. Focusing on the work of Tessa Boffin and Del LaGrace Volcano, this book argues that, through their photography, these artists made a critical contribution to the reclamation of “queer” as both a political identification and an aesthetic practice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChallenging the idea that queer politics and aesthetics developed solely through activism around HIV\/AIDS, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHurled Towards the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers an alternative account that locates this history in a Britain shaped by Section 28, the sex wars, and a series of debates around pornography and representation. While those disputes often sought to fix the meaning of “lesbian” and “feminist,” Boffin and Volcano moved in a different direction, and created work that used performance, parody, and fantasy to ask “what if?” of gender and sexuality—reimagining these terms as open, fluid, and radically inclusive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first art-historical study of London’s lesbian sex-radical scene, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHurled Towards the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e features its most iconic photographs and includes previously unpublished materials from Boffin’s archive. It also provides a new reading of Volcano’s early practice, positioning both artists in relation to British photo theory and the tools it offered to challenge the idea of “natural” gender and sexuality. These threads are brought together though the book’s articulation of the subjunctive—a mood at work in these artists’ photographs that insists on possibility, and on the political force of imagining otherwise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hurled Towards the Future\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/strong\u003ePaul Mellon Centre \/ Yale University Press, June 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Flora Dunster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 19\u003cspan\u003e x 25.4 cm, 232 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781913107543\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"* New or Sealed *","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56835575906684,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2244\/5351\/files\/FloraCover.jpg?v=1780569385","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/products\/flora-dunster-hurled-towards-the-future","provider":"TPG Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}