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Contributor(s): Series: Documents of contemporary art seriesPublisher: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 236 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780854882243
  • 0854882243
Uniform titles:
  • Sexuality (M.I.T. Press)
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Contents:
Desire, art and eroticism -- Representation, sexuality, visuality -- Sexuality, art, politics -- Porn, S&M, the limits of art -- Queer, performance, embodiment.
Summary: Sexuality traces how and why identifications of art with sexual expression or repression arose, and how the terms have shifted in tandem with artistic and theoretical debates, from the rights movements era to the present. Among the subjects it discusses are abjection and the informe, or formless; pornography and the obscene; the 'performativity' of sexuality and gender; and sexuality's role in forging radical artistic practices in response to such topical issues as anti-feminism and state-led repression.
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Artists and writers: Vito Acconci, Malek Alloula, Lawrence Alloway, assume vivid astro focus, Ron Athey, Louise Bourgeois, Stan Brakhage, Norman O. Brown, Judith Butler, George Chakravarthi, Judy Chicago, Tee Corinne, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Douglas Crimp, Wim Delvoye, Angela Dimitrakaki, Jennifer Doyle, Marcel Duchamp, VALIE EXPORT, Michel Foucault, Dan Fox, Masha Gessen, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Daniel Guerin, Sunil Gupta, Harmony Hammond, Eleanor Heartney, Jesse Helms, Claudette Johnson, Jonathan D. Katz, Mary Kelly, Jennie Klein, Max Kozloff, Rosalind Krauss, Julie Kristeva, Jack Kroll, Yayoi Kusama, Del LaGrace Volcano, Robert Legorreta (Cyclona), Pawel Leszkowicz, Paul McCarthy, Juanita McNeely, Sarah Maple, Herbert Marcuse, Joseph Masheck, Kobena Mercer, Jonas Mekas, Annette Michelson, Laura Mulvey, Shirin Neshat, Lorraine O'Grady, Yoko Ono, Catherine Opie, ORLAN, Peter Plagens, William Pope.L., Lawrence Rinder, Jacqueline Rose, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Joan Semmel, Martha Shelley, Jack Smith, Susan Sontag, Annie Sprinkle, Anita Steckel, Alina Szapocznikow, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Vaginal Davis, Olivier Vallerand, Stephen Whittle, Hannah Wilke, David Wojnarowicz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-231) and index.

Desire, art and eroticism -- Representation, sexuality, visuality -- Sexuality, art, politics -- Porn, S&M, the limits of art -- Queer, performance, embodiment.

Sexuality traces how and why identifications of art with sexual expression or repression arose, and how the terms have shifted in tandem with artistic and theoretical debates, from the rights movements era to the present. Among the subjects it discusses are abjection and the informe, or formless; pornography and the obscene; the 'performativity' of sexuality and gender; and sexuality's role in forging radical artistic practices in response to such topical issues as anti-feminism and state-led repression.

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