Juan Vicente Aliaga (born 1959) is a Spanish art critic who has written widely on contemporary

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...

as well as on

gender Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures ...

and queer theory. In his pioneer 1997 book ''Identidad y diferencia: sobre la cultura gay en España'', co-authored with José Miguel G. Cortés, he expressed criticism of the assimilationist strategies of mainstream LGBT+ associations in Spain, advocating instead for a politics of difference and the

reappropriation In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e. ...

of slurs like "marica" and "maricón", similarly to what happened with "queer" in English-speaking countries.

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1959 births Gender studies academics Queer theorists Spanish queer theorists Spanish art critics Spanish art curators Living people {{Spain-academic-bio-stub