Bad girls and sick boys : fantasies in contemporary art and culture

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Bad girls and sick boys : fantasies in contemporary art and culture

Linda S. Kauffman

University of California Press, c1998

  • pbk. : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-302) and index

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ISBN 9780520210301

内容説明

Turning the tables on the pornography debate, this is an analysis of taboo-shattering fiction, film and performance art. The book investigates the role of fantasy in art, politics and popular culture and shows how technological advances in medicine and science have altered our concepts of the human body. It offers a tour of the cultural landscape and connects the dots between the radical artists who shatter taboos and challenge legal and aesthetic convention. Writers such as John Hawkes, Robert Coover and Kathy Acker, filmmakers such as Ngozi Onwurah and Isaac Julien, and performers like Carolee Schneemann and Annie Sprinkle are examined.
巻冊次

pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780520210325

内容説明

Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological advances in medicine and science (magnetic resonance imaging, computers, and telecommunications) have profoundly altered our concepts of the human body. Cyberspace is producing new forms of identity and subjectivity. The novelists, filmmakers, and performers in Bad Girls and Sick Boys are the interpreters of these brave new worlds, cartographers who are busy mapping the fin-de-millennium environment that already envelops us. Bad Girls and Sick Boys offers a vital and entertaining tour of the current cultural landscape. Kauffman boldly connects the dots between the radical artists who shatter taboos and challenge legal and aesthetic conventions. She links writers like John Hawkes and Robert Coover to Kathy Acker and William Vollmann; filmmakers like Ngozi Onwurah and Isaac Julien to Brian De Palma and Gus Van Sant; and performers like Carolee Schneemann and Annie Sprinkle to the visual arts. Kauffman's lively interviews with J. G. Ballard, David Cronenberg, Bob Flanagan, and Orlan add an extraordinary dimension to her timely and convincing argument.

目次

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue PART ONE PERFORMANCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 1 Contemporary Art Exhibitionists 2 Cutups in Beauty School PART TWO VISCERAL CINEMA 3 Impolitic Bodies: Race and Desire 4 Sex Work: Producing Porn s David Cronenberg's Surreal Abjection PART THREE ARRESTING FICTION 6 J.G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibitions 7 Criminal Writing: John Hawkes and Robert Coover 8 New Inquisitions: Kathy Acker and William Vollmann 9 Masked Passions: Meese, Mercy, and American Psycho Epilogue Notes Index

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