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A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind / Siri Hustvedt. by Hustvedt, Siri. Simon & Schuster, 2016. Call #: 814.54 H972w Subjects Art -- Essays.   Feminism -- Essays.   Neurosciences -- Essays.   Psychology -- Essays.   Philosophy -- Essays.   Women novelists, American -- 21st century -- Essays.   American essays -- Women authors.   American essays -- 21st century ISBN:  9781501141096 (hc.) 9781501141102 (pbk.) Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition Description:  xx, 552 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references Contents:  I: A woman looking at men looking at women. A woman looking at men looking at women ; Balloon magic ; My Louise Bourgeois ; Anselm Kiefer : the truth is always gray ; Mapplethorpe/Almod©đvar : points and counterpoints ; Wim Wenders's Pina : dancing for dance ; Much ado about hairdos ; Sontag on smut : fifty years later ; "No competition" ; The writing self and the psychiatric patient ; Inside the room -- II: The delusions of certainty -- III: What are we? : lectures on the human condition. Borderlands : first, second, and third person adventures in crossing disciplines ; Becoming others ; Why one story and not another? ; I wept for four years and when I stopped I was blind ; Suicide and the drama of self-consciousness ; Subjunctive flights : thinking through the embodied reality of imaginary worlds ; Remembering in art : the horizontal and the vertical ; Philosophy matters in brain matters ; Kierkegaard's pseudonyms and the truths of fiction Summary:  A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from novelist Siri Hustvedt, the author of The Blazing World and What I Loved. Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the humanities, and the sciences. She is a novelist and a feminist. Her lively, lucid essays begin to make some sense of those plural perspectives. Divided into three parts, the first section "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women" investigates the perceptual and gender biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. Among the legendary figures considered are Picasso, De Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, the Guerrilla Girls, and Karl Ove Knausgaard. The second part "The Delusions of Certainty" is about the age-old mind/body problem that has haunted Western philosophy since the Greeks. Hustvedt explains the relationship between the mental and the physical realms, showing what lies beyond the argument - desire, belief, and the imagination. The final section "What Are We?: Lectures on the Human Condition" discusses neurological disorders and the mysteries of hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology, and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound and powerful consideration of suicide. Siri Hustvedt has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and is the author of five novels including The Blazing World and What I Loved. She is the author of the 2012 essay collection Living, Thinking, Looking, and the 2010 memoir The Shaking Woman, or, A History of My Nerves. She lives in Brooklyn. Genre:  Essays. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.54 H972w Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.54 H972w Adult books Checked out Jul 05, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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