Chaos, Territory, Art by Elizabeth Grosz

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Elizabeth Grosz argues that art—especially architecture, music, and painting—is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires.

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Chaos, Territory, Art by Elizabeth Grosz

Elizabeth Grosz argues that artespecially architecture, music, and paintingis born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires.
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 *
Beautifully written. The sentences unfold and caress you like a plume of exhaled smoke, giving the book’s emphasis on sexual attraction and the eroticism of sensation a physical force. * Comparative Literature Studies *
Elizabeth Grosz is the Jean Fox O’Barr Professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Literature at Duke University. Her books include The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism (Columbia, 2017).
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ISBN 13 9780231145190
ISBN 10 0231145195
Title Chaos, Territory, Art
Author Elizabeth Grosz
Series The Wellek Library Lectures
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Columbia University Press
Year published 2020-02-04
Number of pages 136
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