Sex objects : art and the dialectics of desire / Jennifer Doyle.

Author/creator Doyle, Jennifer
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxxxi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-174) and index.
LCCN 2005029343
ISBN0816645264 (alk. paper)
ISBN0816645256 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks NX650.E7 D69 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold