Sex Objects Art and the Dialectics of Desire

Name: Sex Objects Art and the Dialectics of Desire
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ISBN: 9780816645268

ISBN-10: 0816645264

ISBN-13: 9780816645268

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jennifer Doyle

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The declaration that a work of art is "about sex" is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, even profoundly boring. "Sex Objects" examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. In chapters on the "boring parts" of "Moby-Dick," the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 2/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English