📙 This book is a ride through the literary world of the 1990s from the perspective of "the wife of"; it's an exploration of visual art through the perspective of obscurity, complexity and weirdness, and a classic and transgressive exploration of authorship.
We discuss:
* I Love Dick (duuuuh)
* artistic freedom
* creative liberation
* female creativity
* the complexities of feminism
* the work of Sophie Calle, Hannah Wilke
* Authorship and its twist through auto-fiction
* artistic exposure invisibility, and obscurity
* authorship
* critique versus experience
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Takeaways
* the great literary work of Chris Kraus
* the female condition and the role of the artist
* layers of feminism
* critical prejudice against feminist art
* the economy of artistic exclusion
* aesthetic experience of desire
* desire as a fiction device
* sex, lust and adultery in postmodernism
* sex in art
00:00 Intro: On creative freedom and obscurity
02:51 A feminist sensation: "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus
09:47 Dick, Sylvère... and Chris
15:12 The Structure of the Book
23:29 The Triangle of Obscurity
26:05 Exposure of Self or Obscurity of the Muse?
30:53 Transgression as Sexlessness
41:04 Economic Obscurity
47:21 Sex, Desire, and Visibility
54:26 Art, Identity, and Obscurity
55:44 The Life and Legacy of Hannah Wilke
01:09:39 Art Monsters
01:17:56 Outro