Bad girls and sick boys : fantasies in contemporary art and culture

Author

Kauffman, Linda S., 1949-

Title

Bad girls and sick boys : fantasies in contemporary art and culture / Linda S. Kauffman.

Format

Book

Published

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1998.

Description

xii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

URL

<ACLS Humanities E-Book> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.08020
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Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-302) and index.
Also issued online.

Contents

• Contemporary art exhibitionists
• Cutups in beauty school
• Impolitic bodies: Race and desire
• Sex Work: Producing porn
• David Cronenberg's surreal abjection
• J.G. Ballard's atrocity exhibitions
• Criminal writing: John Hawkes and Robert Coover
• New inquisitions: Kathy Acker and William Vollmann
• Masked Passions: Meese, Mercy, and American Psycho.

Summary

Bad Girls and Sick Boys turns the pornography debate on its head by posing new questions: What is fantasy? What fantasies circulate throughout popular culture, in the media, and on the Right? What function does the avant-garde have in a culture that co-opts every subversive act? How are novelists, filmmakers, and performance artists using technology and the human body to map the fin-de-millennium environment that already envelops us?

Subject headings

Cronenberg, David, 1943-
Ballard, J. G.,--1930-

Kinsey subjects

Art--20th century.

ISBN

0520210301 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520210301 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520210328 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520210325 (pbk. : alk. paper)