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Article: Sex Objects.(Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire)(Book review)
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Jennifer Doyle, Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire, University of Minnesota Press, 2006, 184pp, illus, pb, $19.95, 08166 45264.
The preface of Jennifer Doyle's excellent disruption of current critical theories about how sex matters in art explains how 12-year-old Doyle came across gay porn video catalogues showing images of Moby-Dick, a well-endowed black man, which resulted in a perverse expectancy on reading Melville's novel. Just as the white whale had become an image of sexual and racial otherness, Doyle's reading of the novel centres on 'the projection of whiteness through blackness' and its resemblance to aspects of pornography, as when ...
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