A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

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Cover artist
Christopher Lin
Language
English
Original language
English
Publisher
Sceptre
Publication year
2017
Original publication year
2016
ISBN
978-1-473-63890-7
Pages
552
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Table of contents

  • Introduction

I A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

  • A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
  • Balloon Magic
  • My Louise Bourgeois
  • Anselm Kiefer: The Truth Is Always Gray
  • Mapplethorpe/Almodóvar: Points and Counterpoints
  • Wim Wenders's Pina: Dancing for Dance
  • Much Ado About Hairdos
  • Sontag on Smut: Fifty Years Later
  • "No Competition"
  • The Writing Self and the Psychiatric Patient
  • Inside the Room

II The Delusions of Certainty

III What are We?: Lectures on the Human Condition

  • Borderlands: First, Second, and Third Person Adventures in Crossing Disciplines
  • Becoming Others
  • Why One Story and Not Another?
  • I Wept for Four Years and When I Stopped I Was Blind
  • Suicide and the Drama of Self-Consciousness
  • Subjunctive Flights: Thinking Through the Embodied Reality of Imaginary Worlds
  • Remembering in Art: The Horizontal and the Vertical
  • Philosophy Matters in Brain Matters
  • Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms and the Truths of Fiction
  • Notes
  • Author's Previously Published Essays