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The Logic of the Lure
John Paul Ricco
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Description for The Logic of the Lure
Paperback. The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial. Jean Paul Ricco argues through the medium of modern art that it is precisely such fleeting experiences that will create a queer aesthetic, and notion of ethics. Num Pages: 184 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 123 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With "The Logic of the Lure", John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic and even perverse experiences that will help us create a truly queer notion of ethics and aesthetics - one that recasts sociality and sexuality, place and finitude in ways suggested by the anonymity and itinerant lures of cruising. Shifting our attention from artworks to the work that art does, from subjectivity to becoming, and from static space to ... Read more
The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With "The Logic of the Lure", John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic and even perverse experiences that will help us create a truly queer notion of ethics and aesthetics - one that recasts sociality and sexuality, place and finitude in ways suggested by the anonymity and itinerant lures of cruising. Shifting our attention from artworks to the work that art does, from subjectivity to becoming, and from static space to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226711010
SKU
V9780226711010
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About John Paul Ricco
John Paul Ricco is assistant professor of art history at Texas Tech University. He has curated several contemporary art exhibitions on gender, sexuality, and AIDS.
Reviews for The Logic of the Lure
"This original and frequently dazzling work explores sites that might be defined as queer spaces, and in which we might think of a queer architecture being located. What results is an extremely fascinating effort to redefine notions of architectural space and identity, and to reimagine the spatial dimensions of subjectivity itself." - Leo Bersani, author of Homos