num_pages: 502
description: A SUNDAY TIMES TELEGRAPH ROUGH TRADE PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARArt Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris &amp; Cosey has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.It is the account of an artist who as part of COUM Transmissions represented Britain at the IXth Biennale de Paris whose Prostitution show at the ICA in 1976 caused the Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn to declare her COUM and Throbbing Gristle 'Wreckers of Civilisation' . . . shortly before he was arrested for indecent exposure and whose work continues to be held at the vanguard of contemporary art.And it is the story of her work as a pornographic model and striptease artiste which challenged assumptions about morality erotica and art.Art Sex Music is the wise shocking and elegant autobiography of Cosey Fanni Tutti.
language: English
title: Art Sex Music
publisher: Faber & Faber Social