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Sexually Explicit Art, Feminist Theory, and Gender in the 1970s

Sexually Explicit Art, Feminist Theory, and Gender in the 1970s

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Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Art

Art HistoryGeneral Art

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ISBN10: 1032126590
ISBN13: 9781032126593
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 178
Language: English

Structured around sexual desire as the central analytical category, this monograph systematically approaches a heterogeneous array of artworks to purposefully examine the entanglements of art, feminist theory, gender, and sexuality.

This book considers the potential of sexually explicit art to challenge a socially constructed conception of sexuality as well as gender, and explores the sexually explicit as a means to (re-)claim agency for marginalized subjectivities and to emancipate desire from within the patriarchal and heteronormative system. In distinct case studies, the author focuses on works by four US-American artists - Robert Mapplethorpe, Joan Semmel, Betty Tompkins, and Tee A. Corinne - and situates them in relation to contemporaneous debates associated with the insurgent Sexual Liberation Movements of the 1970s.

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