Art as Erotic

Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth

Elizabeth Grosz

June, 2008
Cloth, 136 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14518-3

Grosz attempts to find the Origin of art. She says, Arts starts with sexual selection. Two sexes, attracting each other through the senses. She talks about the ways that music, architecture, painting, philosophy and art function together in a world of chaos to elaborate chaos through sensations and thoughts. Grosz says that the first gesture in art is the frame. she goes on to say that architecture focuses on building frames, cubes, designing territory, not the sensation but instead a place to experience the sensation. In the territory art, music, painting can be made sense of. She says that art is cultures most direct mode of enhancement of the body, which is why it can be universally expressed. Grosz's thinks that the meaning of art is the sensation felt when it is experienced, the interpretation of chaos, and the sensation and coexisting.


Questions:

If art is direct and universally understood through sensations, how does semotics effect the affect of art amoung seperate milieus?

How does Grosz education and life experiences effect her theories on art?

About the author:

Elizabeth Grosz is professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University. She also teaches gender studies and architecture at the University of Bergen, Norway, and The University of Sydney, Australia. Grosz has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of California, Irvine, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University. Trained in continental philosophy, she has written widely on the body, sexuality, space, time, and materiality, and her publications include The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power. (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14518-3/chaos-territory-art)