According to publishing copy from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Ask by Sam Lipsyte will cover themes such as «work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row and
the eroticization of chicken wire.»
Probing many themes — or, perhaps, anxieties — including work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and
the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often...
Inspired by
the eroticization and fetishization of large hairy men within the gay community, these works abstract and celebrate an ideal of beauty quite outside of the mainstream.
Inspired by
the eroticization and fetishization of large hairy men within the gay community, my work grapples with an ideal of beauty quite outside of the mainstream.
Though colorful and pleasingly gestural, the drawings also confront themes of
eroticization and fetishization of the Black female body, arguably one of the more important conversations being had in such a modern feminist art show.
Carbon photographic prints of idyllic male youths, framed within hand - drawn structures, reflect
an eroticization of, and dislocation from, the male form.
It is worth noting that the grouping of the diverse works of painting, photography, sculpture, and video shown at the fair as «African art» plays on stereotypes of
eroticization that have long plagued the work made in various parts of the continent.
[14][15] In Freudian analysis, cuckold fetishism is
the eroticization of the fears of infidelity and of failure in the man's competition for procreation and the affection of females.