Argues that art, especially architecture, music, and painting, is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. This book approaches art as a form of erotic expression that connects sensory richness with primal desire. It argues that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires, not just its intention.
Recenzijas
This wonderful and short book... continues her recent quest of recasting Darwinian biology within a Deleuzean and Nietzschean understanding of sexual difference. -- Arun Saldanha Environment and Planning
Papildus informācija
Elizabeth Grosz's writing is at once clear and evocative. Her readings of Deleuze and Guattari are astute and judicious, opening their thought to practitioners of all the arts. Her use of Charles Darwin and Jakob von Uexkull is illuminating, and her approach to the evolution of the arts provides a refreshing alternative to the deterministic and reductionistic arguments of many evolutionary biologists and their enthusiasts in the field of aesthetics. I know of no other book that offers a similar view of the arts and their relationship to the natural world. -- Ronald Bogue, professor of comparative literature, University of Georgia
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Chaos, Cosmos, Territory, Architecture |
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1 | (24) |
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Vibration. Animal, Sex, Music |
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25 | (38) |
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Sensation. The Earth, a People, Art |
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63 | (42) |
| Bibliography |
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105 | (6) |
| Index |
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Elizabeth Grosz is professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University. She also teaches gender studies and architecture at the University of Bergen, Norway, and The University of Sydney, Australia. Grosz has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of California, Irvine, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University. Trained in continental philosophy, she has written widely on the body, sexuality, space, time, and materiality, and her publications include The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power.
