The erotic doll : a modern fetish /

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Author / Creator:	Smith, Marquard.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Description:	376 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Fetishism in art. Dolls in art. Dolls -- Psychological aspects. Art. Dolls. Dolls -- Psychological aspects. Fetishism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9914268

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ISBN:	9780300152029 (cl : alk. paper) 0300152027 (cl : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term 'heterosexual' as well as distinctly modern conceptions 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 customised 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 poupées; and Marcel Duchamp fabricated a nude figure in his environmental tableau Étant donnés. 'The Erotic Doll' is the first book to explore men's complex relationships with such inanimate forms from historical, theoretical and phenomenological perspectives.

Table of Contents:

introduction: what does man want?
i. animism: coming to Life
1. visions of pygmalion: 'I know very well, but all the same ...'
2. the doll as fetish: perverse practices with fetishistic things
ii. the integrity of the doll
3. touching: oskar kokoschka's alma mahler
4. modernity's outmodedness: surrealism's mannequins electric and shop-window dummies
5. the modern sex doll: participatory sexual devices
6. realdoll: intimacy, domesticity and brutality
iii. given, the anagrammatical doll
7. marcel duchamp's étant donnés: a distorting
8. hans bellmer's poupées: anagrammatical desire
conclusion: vibrating matter energised: animism and thing theory
notes
acknowledgements
illustration credits
index

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