23.0 x 13.0cms 182pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover This book argues that cruising (ie fleeting erotic and even perverse experiences) can help us create a queer notion of ethics and aesthetics recasting sexuality sociabillity place and finitude. It looks at Doug Ishar Tom Burr Derek Jarman sex clubs public restrooms / toilets. and alleys.

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Title: The Logic Of The Lure
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0226711013
ISBN 13: 9780226711010
Binding: Soft cover

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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 taking place, Ricco considers a variety of issues, including the work of Doug Ischar, Tom Burr, and Derek Jarman and the minor architecture of sex clubs, public restrooms, and alleyways.

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John Paul Ricco is associate professor in the Department of Visual Studies and Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.

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We stock books about art, design, fashion, heritage/history and gender/sexuality, specialising in books about Australian, Asian & Pacific arts, crafts design and cultural history. Since we are committed to marginalised and innovative social and cultural practices, we are more likely to have books on women artists or dissident life than coffee-table books on iconic figures. This shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross area, which has provided alternatives to this country's normalcy and suburbia for the last 80 years. Colloquially known as 'The Cross', this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, streetgangs and a world-famous red light district etc. THE CROSS Art + Books is a foundation member of The Bookdealers Guild (NSW).

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