A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind / Siri Hustvedt.
A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind / Siri Hustvedt.
A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind / Siri Hustvedt.
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
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G 2017/5931
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Language
English
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Physical content
xx, 552 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
A "collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy"--Amazon.com.
This collection combines in a single work Hustvedt's trilogy of essays which draw in insights from both the sciences and the humanities. Among the subjects she explores are the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world; how mind-body problems have shaped contemporary thought in the sciences; and an analysis of suicide....
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A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind / Siri Hustvedt.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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G 2017/5931
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74VKVgyOlGkA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyOlGkA
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ISBN
1501141104 (trade pbk.)
9781501141096 (hardcover)
1501141090 (hardcover)
9781501141102 (trade pbk.)
DDC
814.54
MMS ID
991024148682702626
