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The erotic doll : a modern fetish
- Title
- The erotic doll : a modern fetish / Marquard Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Marquard.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- 376 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term 'heterosexual' as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity and animism. Their convergence, and the demands of a growing consumer society resulted in a proliferation of waxworks, shop-window dummies and customised love dolls, which also began to appear in art. Oskar Kokoschka commissioned a life-sized doll of his former lover Alma Mahler; Hans Bellmer crafted poupées; and Marcel Duchamp fabricated a nude figure in his environmental tableau Étant donnés. 'The Erotic Doll' is the first book to explore men's complex relationships with such inanimate forms from historical, theoretical and phenomenological perspectives.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-370) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : what does man want? -- Visions of Pygmalion : 'I know very well, but all the same ...' -- The doll as fetish : perverse practices with fetishistic things -- Touching : Oskar Kokoschka's Alma Mahler -- Modernity's outmodedness : surrealism's mannequins, electric and shop-window dummies -- The modern sex doll : participatory sexual devices -- RealDoll : intimacy, domesticity and brutality -- Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés : a distorting -- Hans Bellmer's poupées : anagrammatical desire -- Conclusion : vibrating matter energised : animism and thing theory.
- Call Number
- JQE 14-69
- ISBN
- 9780300152029 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0300152027 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013026515
- OCLC
- 844731557
- Author
- Smith, Marquard.
- Title
- The erotic doll : a modern fetish / Marquard Smith.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-370) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 14-69