Summary: Sexualia takes a lavishly illustrated and expertly written look at human sexuality, its practices and traditions, in cultures from ancient times up through the present day. Written by an international team of cultural critics, scientists, and anthropologists, this book shows an astonishing variety of reactions to the possibilities and problems of sexuality in the course of history. Sexualia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Könemann 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 306.7 BISMundy, Jennifer
Summary: Damaged, attacked, rejected, destroyed, transient - there are many ways that art can become lost. With work by Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread and Lucian Freud, this is a lively look at a often little considered aspect of contemporary art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes explains: "Flaubert believed that...great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting....But it is a rare picture that stuns,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knope 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 709.03 BARSummary: The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017