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Series Editor: Iwona Blazwick; Commissioning Editor: Ian Farr; Project Editor: Sarah Auld; Editorial Advisory Board: Roger Conover, Neil Cummings, Mark Francis, David Jenkins, Omar Kholeif, Magnus af Petersens, Gilane Tawadros Our formidable challenge is to Introduction//12

DESIRE, ART, EROTICISM//28 REPRESENTATION, SEXUALITY, VISUALITY//66 SEXUALITY, ART, POLITICS//96 rehumanize, PORN, S&M, THE LIMITS OF ART//134 QUEER, PERFORMANCE, EMBODIMENT//176

BiOGRAPHICAL NOTES//226 repoliticize Bibliography/228 Index//233 and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS//239 decolonize our own bodies wounded by the media and intervened upon by the invisible surgery of pop culture; and to do it in such a way that our audiences are not even aware of it

Guillermo Gómez-Peña, ‘Culturas-in-extremis’, 2005 DESIRE, ART, EROTICISM Trinh T. Minh-ha Difference: ‘A Special Third World Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare, 1934//30 Women Issue’, 1989//82 Herbert Marcuse Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Kobena Mercer Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference Inquiry into Freud (1955), 1961//31 and the Homoerotic Imaginary, 1991//85 Norman O. Brown Art and Eros, 1959//32 Jennie Klein Feeding the Body: The Work of Barbara Daniel Guérin Wilhelm Reich Today, 1968//38 Smith, 1999//89 Carolee Schneemann On Fuses (1965–67): In Harmony Hammond Lesbian Art in America, 2000//92 Conversation with Kate Haug, 1998//43 Dan Fox On Gerard Byrne’s New Sexual Lifestyles (2003), Alina Szapocznikow The Human Body, ‘That Complete 2006//93 Erogenous Zone’, 1972//48 George Chakravarthi In Conversation with Tina Joan Semmel, Louise Bourgeois, Anita Steckel, Juanita Jackson, 2007//95 McNeely, Hannah Wilke Statements for ‘The Female View of Erotica’, 1974//49 SEXUALITY, ART, POLITICS Malek Alloula The Orient as Stereotype and Phantasm, Jonas Mekas A Statement, 1964//98 1981//51 Stan Brakhage Letter to Jonas Mekas, 1967//100 Claudette Johnson Issues Surrounding the Represen- Yayoi Kusama Homosexual Wedding (Press Release), tation of the Naked Body of a Woman, 1991//54 1968//102 Lorraine O’Grady Olympia’s Maid: Reclaiming Black VALIE EXPORT On Work of the Late 1960s: In Subjectivity, 1992//56 Conversation with Devin Fore, 2012//103 ORLAN Carnal Art Manifesto, c. 2000//61 Tee Corinne and Martha Shelley Cunt Coloring Book Jonathan D. Katz Art and the Sexual Revolution, (1975), 1981//106 2010//62 Douglas Crimp AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, 1987//107 REPRESENTATION, SEXUALITY, VISUALITY David Wojnarowicz Idol Worship: In Conversation with Yoko Ono Score for Film no. 6, 1968//68 Owen Keehnen, 1991//110 Laura Mulvey Fears, Fantasies and the Male Felix Gonzalez-Torres In Conversation with Robert Storr, Unconscious, or ‘You Don’t Know What’s , 1995//114 Do You Mr Jones?’, 1972//69 Lawrence Rinder In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro Female Imagery, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, 1995//117 1973//73 Shirin Neshat In Conversation with Arthur C. Danto, Mary Kelly No Essential Femininity: In Conversation 2000//121 with Paul Smith, 1982//76 Sarah Maple Islam is the New Black: In Conversation Jacqueline Rose Sexuality in the Field of Vision, with Anikka Maya Weerasinghe, 2008//125 1984//79 Pawel Leszkowicz Ars Homo Erotica, 2010//127 Masha Gessen Pussy Riot: Modern Russian Women In Conversation with Cindy Nemser, Trapped in Putin’s Time Machine, 2012//129 1971//182 Olivier Vallerand Endlessly Kissing in a Park, 2012//131 Judith Butler The Body You Want: In Conversation with Liz Kotz, 1992//185 PORN, S&M, THE LIMITS OF ART Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Queer Performativity: Warhol’s Cosey Fanni Tutti On Works (1972–77), 1993//136 Shyness/Warhol’s Whiteness, 1996//191 Peter Plagens On Lynda Benglis, Artforum William Pope.L Hole Theory: Parts 4 & 5, 2002//195 Advertisement, 1974//138 Stephen Whittle Impossible People: Viewing the Self- Lawrence Alloway, Max Kozloff, Rosalind Krauss, Portraits of Transsexual Persons, 2004//200 Joseph Masheck and Annette Michelson On Lynda Wim Delvoye Vim and Vigour: In Conversation with Benglis, Artforum Advertisement, 1974//139 Robert Enright, 2005//202 Michel Foucault The Gay Science: In Conversation Guillermo Gómez-Peña Culturas-in-extremis: Performing with Jean Le Bitoux, 1978//140 against the Cultural Backdrop of the Mainstream Julia Kristeva Approaching , 1980//144 Bizarre (2001), 2005//205 Eleanor Heartney In Defence of Pornography: Robert Legorreta (Cyclona) In Conversation with A Necessary Transgression, 1988//147 Jennifer Flores Sternad, 2006//208 Jesse Helms Amendment no. 420, 1989//150 Sunil Gupta In conversation with Radhika Singh, Annie Sprinkle Post Porn Modernist, 1991//151 2008//212 Jennifer Doyle The Effect of Intimacy: Tracey Emin’s Del LaGrace Volcano Hermstory, 2010//218 Bad-Sex Aesthetics, 2002//152 assume vivid astro focus Cyclops Trannies, Paul McCarthy In Conversation with Benjamin c. 2011//222 Weissman, 2003//157 Vaginal Davis LA Riot: On Jabberjaw, 2012//223 Catherine Opie In Conversation with Amy Kellner, 2009//160 Ron Athey In Conversation with Martin O’Brien, 2011//164 Angela Dimitrakaki Labour, Ethics, Sex and Capital: On Biopolitical Production in Contemporary Art, 2011//167

QUEER, PERFORMANCE, EMBODIMENT Jack Kroll Robert Rauschenberg, 1961//178 Jack Smith God’s Body, c. 1963//179 Susan Sontag Notes on Camp, 1964//180