Simulating Sex

Originally co-published by Unlimited Publishing LLC and the New Orleans Art Review in conjunction with the ACORN Cultural Trust, this provocative book collects NOAR articles that pertain to artistic renditions of erotic activity. "Simulating Aesthetic Representation of Erotic Activity" was written over a span of 20 years; these essays cover a broad array of topics, ranging from the novels of Stendhal, Mary McCarthy and D.H. Lawrence; the art of Picasso, Klimt, and Mapplethorpe; the music of Madonna, Mozart, and Liz Phair; the sex lives of Edmund Wilson, Kenneth Tynan, and Jesus; and works like American Pie, Sex and the City, and In Search of Lost Time. The author, Steve Bachmann (B.A., Harvard; M.F.A., University of New Orleans; J.D. Harvard) is the associate editor of the New Orleans Art Review. He has served as art critic for Isthmus (Madison, Wisconsin) and on the faculty of the New School (NYC) ("Politics of Modern Art"). Bachmann is also author of "The U.S. Constitution for Beginners" and "Lawyers, Law, and Social Change" as well as three other books of art and literary criticism.