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Abject art : repulsion and desire in American art : selections from the permanent collection

Title
Abject art : repulsion and desire in American art : selections from the permanent collection / Whitney Museum of American Art.
Publication
New York : The Museum, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Ben-Levi, Jack.
  • Jones, Leslie C.
  • Taylor, Simon.
  • Houser, Craig.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art. Independent Study Program.
Description
111 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
ISP papers ; no. 3
Uniform Title
ISP papers ; no. 3.
Subject
  • Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Conceptual art > United States > Exhibitions
  • Sex role > Exhibitions
  • Human body > Exhibitions
Note
  • Catalogue of an exhibition held June 23 - August 29, 1993.
  • "This exhibition was organized by the following Helena Rubinstein Fellows in the 1992-93 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program: Craig Houser, Leslie C. Jones, and Simon Taylor, who along with Jack Ben-Levi, also contributed essays to this publication" -- t.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Selected bibliography: p. 106-111.
Contents
A sadomasochistic drama in an age of traditional family values / Jack Ben-Levi -- Transgressive femininity: art and gender in the sixties and seventies / Leslie C. Jones -- The phobic object: abjection in contemporary art / Simon Taylor -- I, abject / Craig Houser.
ISBN
0874270901
OCLC
  • ocm28746269
  • SCSB-14543796
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries