An esthetics of masochism? The author wonders if the curators of an Austrian exhibition on masochism in art erred in taking an overly literal approach to their subject.(Report From Graz)(Critical Essay)

From: Art in America | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Schwabsky, Barry | Copyright information

I suppose it was inevitable. When a friend asked what I was working on and I said, "I'm trying to write about masochism," she replied, "Isn't that tautological?" Masochism is one of those topics that's hard to mention without prompting a joke. You needn't be a doctrinaire Freudian to recognize that this is because it's a topic that makes people nervous. But besides the fact that it involves sexual activity of a sort psychoanalytically deemed perverse, there may be another reason wh...

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