Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire

by Jennifer Doyle

The declaration that a work of art is "about sex" is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, even profoundly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816645264
• ISBN13: 9780816645268
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.9"