Shop > Artists' Books

Out of Stock
#11911

Sexuality

Artists
Vito Acconci, Louise Bourgeois, Gerard Byrne, Wim Delvoye, Elmgreen & Dragset, VALIE EXPORT, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Mary Kelly, Paul McCarthy, Yoko Ono, Cathy Opie, Carolee Schneemann, David Wojnarowicz, lynda benglis, George Chakravarthi, Judy Chicago, vaginal davis, harmony hammond, claudette johnson, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Legorreta, Sarah Maple, Shirin Neshat, Lorraine O'Grady, Catherine Opie, William L, Pope, Miriam Schapiro , Joan Semmel, Barbara Smith, Annie Sprinkle, Alina Szapocznikow, Del LaGrace Volcano, and Hannah Wilke
Date
2014
Publisher
MIT Press
Format
Artists' Books
Size
5.8 × 8.3 inches
Length
240 pages
Genre
Theory
Description

It has been argued, most notably in psychoanalytic and modernist art discourse, that the production of works of art is fundamentally driven by sexual desire. It has been further argued, particularly since the early 1970s, that sexual drives and desires also condition the distribution, display and reception of art.

This anthology traces how and why this identification of art with sexual expression or repression arose and how the terms have shifted in tandem with artistic and theoretical debates, from the era of the rights movements to the present. Among the subjects it discusses are abjection and the “informe,” or formless; pornography and the obscene; the performativity of gender and sexuality; and the role of sexuality in forging radical art or curatorial practices in response to such issues as state-sponsored repression and anti-feminism in the broader social realm.

Artists surveyed include:
Vito Acconci, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Gerard Byrne, George Chakravarthi, Judy Chicago, Vaginal Davis, Wim Delvoye, Elmgreen & Dragset, Valie Export, Félix González-Torres, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Harmony Hammond, Claudette Johnson, Mary Kelly, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Legorreta, Paul McCarthy, Sarah Maple, Shirin Neshat, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Catherine Opie, Orlan, William Pope.L, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Barbara Smith, Annie Sprinkle, Alina Szapocznikow, Del LaGrace Volcano, Hannah Wilke, and David Wojnarowicz.

Writers include:
Malek Alloula, Norman O. Brown, Judith Butler, Douglas Crimp, Angela Dimitrakaki, Michel Foucault, Daniel Guérin, Eleanor Heartney, Jonathan D. Katz, Rosalind Krauss, Julia Kristeva, Paweł Leszkowicz, Herbert Marcuse, Kobena Mercer, Laura Mulvey, Lawrence Rinder, Jacqueline Rose, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Susan Sontag, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Stephen Whittle.

  1. Sexuality
 

Related Items

  1. October 148
  2. The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
  3. Susan Schuppli: Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence
  4. Claire Bishop: Participation
  5. Wim Delvoye: Early Works (1968 - 1971)
  6. Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
  7. Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Tom Vandeputte: Politics of Study
  8. It is what it is. Or is it?
  9. Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book - Semiotext(e)
  10. Larraitz Torres: Untitled
  11. Jacob Fabricius: Yours Truly
  12. Clive Phillpot: Ray Johnson on Flop Art: Fragments of Conversations with Ray Johnson 1988 - 1994
  13. Donal McGraith: Leaving No Mark: Prolegomena to an Evanescent Art
  14. October 145: Summer 2013
  15. OCTOBER 146 - Fall 2013
  16. OCTOBER 147 - Winter 2014
  17. Claudia Wieser: Furniture
  18. Image Bank: International Image Exchange Directory
  19. Ryan Kerr: On Growin’ Up…a guide
  20. Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Daniel Buren, Carl Andre, Gene Davis, Jan Dibbets, Al Held, Jeff Khonsary, Craig Leonard, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Murray, N.E. Thing Co., Richard Serra, Seth Siegelaub, Richard Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, and Lawrence Weiner: The Halifax Conference
  21. Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded: Essays on Space and Science
  22. Colin Campbell and Bruce ed. Ferguson: Activating the Archive 2: Otherwise Worldly
  23. Gwen Allen: The Magazine
  24. Impact
  25. Adam Liam Rose: Between the Bars
  26. Michael Snow: October 114
  27. Kodwo Eshun: Dan Graham: Rock My Religion
  28. Anna Dezeuze: Thomas Hirschhorn: Deleuze Monument (Hardcover)
  29. October Magazine Issue 149
  30. October Magazine Issue 151
  31. October Magazine Issue 152
  32. October Magazine Issue 153
  33. October Magazine Issue 154
  34. Hotel Theory Reader
  35. Amanda Boetzkes: Plastic Capitalism
  36. Jonas Staal: Propaganda Art in the 21st Century