This book provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these conne
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Fran Lloyd focuses on the resurgence in the imaging of sex and consumerism in contemporary Japanese art and the connections they establish with the wider histor
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