Since the 19th century, dolls have served as toys but also as objects of obsession, love, and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term heterosexual and of modern concepts of fetishism, perversity, and animism. Their convergence, and the demands of a growing consumer society resulted in a proliferation of waxworks, shop-window dummies, and customized love dolls, which also began to appear in art. Oskar Kokoschka commissioned a life-sized doll of his former lover Alma Mahler; Hans Bellmer crafted poupees; and Marcel Duchamp fabricated a nude figure in his environmental tableau Etant donnes. The Erotic Doll is the first book to explore men's complex relationships with such inanimate forms from historical, theoretical, and phenomenological perspectives. Challenging our commonsense grasp of the relations between persons and things, Marquard Smith examines these erotically charged human figures by interweaving art history, visual culture, gender, and sexuality studies with the medical humanities, offering startling insights into heterosexual masculinity and its discontents.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300152029
eBay Product ID (ePID)
176700998
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Human Biology
Author
Marquard Smith
Publication Name
The Erotic Doll: a Modern Fetish
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Sociology
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
241mm
Item Width
164mm
Item Weight
1098g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Marquard Smith
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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