Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art

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Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art

6 X 9, 208 pages, Softcover
ISBN 1-58115-313-9
Publication Date: September 2004

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Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art

by Penny Florence

The past, present, and future of art collide in this interdisciplinary study, which seeks new meanings across the diversity of the art world. This book is written against the backdrop of the deconstructivist movements of the 1960s, when ideas such as race, gender, class appeared to exclude the possibility of a more inclusive culture.

Forty years into the age of difference, author Penny Florence asserts that if we want to understand notions such as power and subjectivity in today�s art, we cannot ignore the �grand narratives� of the modern age. Tracing examples of this new philosophy in painting, sculpture, film, and digital arts, the author shows that sexual difference can exemplify ways of rethinking old �universals� in terms of today�s culture of difference.

Reviews

�This is a challenging and exciting book. Florence sustains a compelling argument for the political and conceptual value of universals in art without recourse to exclusive, disembodied logic. Reinforcing the significance of modern and contemporary art to the history of ideas, Sexed Universals is a book which inspires you to think.�

�Marsha Meskimmon, Reader in Art History and Theory, Loughborough University and author of Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics

�Penny Florence invites all lovers of art�artists, critics, theorists, and philosophers�to engage in a new dialectic (based on the idea of a differential, sexed universal). Her thinking takes us into the future: light years beyond the traditional male universal.�

�Peg Brand, Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies, Indiana University

�Sexed Universals is important both for the subtlety with which it approaches works of art and as a contribution to the broader debate about how to reformulate the humanist subject implicit in Kant's aesthetic into terms appropriate to contemporary life. Penny Florence has provided a way of thinking about the art work which neither represses the aesthetic by replacing it with the socio-anthropological, nor represses feminism by subordinating it to an eighteenth-century world view.�

�Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Artist and Author of Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime