Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art

by Alan Singer

Book Overview

Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about personhood.

It is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the "sex image," the artist's posing of human figures in the act of coitus, is an enduring compositional armature for artists from antiquity to the present. Singer, however, makes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501359126
• ISBN13: 9781501359125
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"