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Sex objects : art and the dialectics of desire
Author
Title
Sex objects : art and the dialectics of desire / Jennifer Doyle.
ISBN
0816645264 (alk. paper)
0816645256 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xxxi, 184 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 05, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-174) and index.
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface: a promiscuous reader
Introduction: Kusama's boat
Moby Dick's boring parts: pornography's allegorical hothouse
Sex, sodomy, and scandal: art and undress in the work of Thomas Eakins
Tricks of the trade: pop art and the rhetoric of prostitution
"I must be boring someone": women in Warhol's films
The effect of intimacy: Tracey Emin's bad sex aesthetics
White sex: Vaginal Davis does Vanessa Beecroft
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.
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