num_pages: 525
description: Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? is a reader that brings together essays artists writings and works and countercultural publications to examine the juncture of the political and the erotic during the 1960s and 70s. Adopting as its starting point the postwar perception of Scandinavia as a socialist utopia of sexual freedom it explores how the avant-garde artistic and cultural production of the time gravitated towards sexual and political liberation. Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? is the conclusion of a four-year research project and includes many texts published in English here for the first time by philosophers artists psychologists and theorists such as Knut Ove Arntzen Stan Brakhage Norman O. Brown Valie Export yvind Fahlstrm Herbert Marcuse Jonas Mekas Henry Miller Juliet Mitchell Katti Anker Mller Jrgen Nash Hvard Friis Nilsen Claes Oldenburg Elise Ottesen-Jensen Wilhelm Reich Yvonne Rainer Jacqueline Rose Barney Rosset Barbara Rubin Jens Jrgen Thorsen and Otto Weininger.
language: English
title: Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?
publisher: OCA/Koenig Books