Sexed universals in contemporary art / Penny Florence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Florence, Penny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology) in art.

Gender identity in art.

Sex role in art.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Arts, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

xvii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Allworth Press ; [Place of publication not identified] : School of Visual Arts, [2004]

Summary:

The past, present, and future of art collide in this interdisciplinary study, which seeks new meanings across the diversity of the art world. Forty years into the age of difference, author Penny Florence asserts that if we want to understand notions such as power and subjectivity in today's art, we have to rethink the universal as compatible with located and embodied thought. Tracing examples of this new philosophy in painting, sculpture, film, and digital arts, the author shows how sexual difference can exemplify this apparent contradiction.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Into the Thick of Things 1

Chapter 2 On Universals, Myth, and Morphogenesis 29

Part I Universals and Invariance

Part II Myth and Morphogenesis

Chapter 3 Playing Balls with Matisse, Picasso, and Himid 43

Chapter 4 Sexing the Modern with Manet, Morimura, and Sam Taylor-Wood 59

Part I Cosmic Barmaids, Cross-Dressed Bullfighters

Part II Demotic Speech, Universal Subject: Taylor-Wood and Morimura

Chapter 5 Myth, Utopia, and the Non-Narratable Self 95

Part I Savage Stories, Gauguin's Joy

Part II The Ghost of a Blind Spot: Lyne Lapointe, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

Chapter 6 The Devil's Interval: Barbara Hepworth, Anish Kapoor, and Liz Larner 129

Chapter 7 A Valediction: Nationalism and Melancholia; Sex, War, and Modernism 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1581153139

OCLC:

53243402