The Logic of the Lure
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780226711010
Subjects: Aesthetics; Gay & Lesbian studies; Theory of art; Art; Gender Studies; Sociology; Gay Studies; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Social Science / Gay Studies; Fine Arts; Homosexuality; Homosexuality and architecture; Homosexuality and art; Philosophy
First sentence: The middle: the only place where one can begin, as I shall, here and now.
Description: "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 contemporary artists such as Doug Ischar, Tom Burr, and Derek Jarman, and the minor architecture of sex clubs, public restrooms, and alleyways. For instance, he shows how spaces like a deserted corridor or a back room only become meaningful by virtue of what happens (or doesn't happen) there, and how art in the era of AIDS has moved beyond representation and historicization to become a raw encounter with finitude - an astonishment at the simple fact of not being dead."--Jacket.