SEXUALITY

It has been argued, most notably in psychoanalytic and modernist art discourse, that the production of works of art is fundamentally driven by sexual desire. It has further been argued, particularly since the early 1970s, that sexual drives and desires also condit ion the distribution, display and reception of art. This anthology traces how and why this identification of art with sexual express ion or repression arose and how the terms have shifted in tandem with artistic and theoretical debates, from the era of the rights m ovements...[Read more]