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  • Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Keith Ryan, $30, 1990. Dye coupler print, 39.6 x 58.9 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
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    The Many Faces of Sex in Contemporary Art

    March 23, 2016 / 0 Comments

    “Sex and art are the same thing.” Picasso said that. Well, I’ve tried both and no, Picasso, they’re not. But he still has a point there. (It’s Picasso after all!) In the history of mankind, people couldn’t help but having sex. And art couldn’t help but making it one of its main subjects. Sex rarely fails to attract attention, advertisement knows that. There’s beauty in it. Moreover, there’s a whole variety of emotions and concepts that can be expressed through sexuality. Nobody is more aware of it than contemporary artists. Let’s take two examples… We usually don’t tend to see sex as something that creates relations of power. It does…

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