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Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art
Consuming Bodies explores the themes of sex and consumerism in contemporary Japanese art and how they connect with the wider conditions of modern Japanese culture. Engaging with performance, digital media, painting, sculpture and including the diary of a sex worker, it features essays by writers, historians, curators and artists. With more than 160 powerful and sometimes controversial images, this book is bound to provoke debate about this little - discussed aspect of Japanese culture.
256 pages, Paperback
First published February 3, 2004
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April 12, 2019
120419: very good. academic book, if you want it, read it. some art theory, history, philosophy. collection of essays. some very good. some need cultural context. usual art theory language, concepts, usual english awareness re. feminism, history, ideology, politics. some parallels with 'western' art, some insistence on essential differences on attitudes, history, politics, representation, use for shock, of sex in art. one essay ends up damning one contemporary artist for 'puerile', 'incoherent', 'absent' values. another essay celebrates same for 'satire', 'popular values','engagement', plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose...
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