The declaration that a work of art is "about sex" is often
announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing
else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a
conversation when instead it should begin a new one.
Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer
Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday
life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing,
funny, even profoundly boring. "Sex Objects" examines the reception
and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words,
and performances. In chapters on the "boring parts" of "Moby-Dick,"
the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of
women in Andy Warhol's Factory films, "bad sex" and Tracey Emin's
crudely evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal Davis's
pornographic parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances, "Sex
Objects" challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and
instead investigates what such works can tell us about the nature
of desire.
In "Sex Objects, "Doyle offers a creative and original exploration
of how and where art and sex connect, arguing that to proclaim a
piece of art "about sex" reveals surprisingly little about the
work, the artist, or the spectator. Deftly interweaving anecdotal
and personal writing with critical, feminist, and queer theory, she
reimagines the relationship between sex and art in order to better
understand how the two meet-and why it matters.
Jennifer Doyle is associate professor of English at the University
of California, Riverside. She is coeditor, with Jonathan Flatley
and Jose Esteban Munoz, of "Pop Out: Queer Warhol."
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