Sex objects : art and the dialectics of desire /

In readings of the "boring parts" of Moby Dick, the role of women in Andy Warhol's films, the scandals surrounding Thomas Eakins, and other unlikely texts, Doyle (English, U. of California, Riverside) challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art. She weaves together anecdotal and...

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Main Author: Doyle, Jennifer (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
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505 0 |a 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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