'An elegantly disciplined page turner, Bound Together interweaves the various cultures of leather sex and the archive with solid research, sly humor, and patient interpretation. In this context, Campbell's sections on a selected group of contemporary and modern artists are particularly insightful.'
Catherine Lord, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
'Sex is good to think with, but Andy Campbells leathersex is even better. This exuberant, challenging, perceptive, cleverly crafted and generously illustrated study explores the role of BDSM in visual and material art, performance and archival practice while, in the process, becoming its own sexual archive. A new kind of art history, Bound together transforms our comprehensions of sex and apprehensions of the archive.'
Professor Barry Reay, author of New York Hustlers and Sex in the Archives
List of plates
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: bound together
2 The work of the masters hand
3 How to talk about Tom
4 Yellow, or reading archives diagonally
5 Numbers
6 Clubs that dont exist anymore
7 Attached to history
8 Deep fist at the Modern
9 Conclusion: surrogates, envelopes
Select bibliography
Index