Jean - Claude Lebensztejn's history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general.
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn is a French art historian, critic, and honorary professor of the University of Paris 1 Panth�on-Sorbonne. His interests range from the art of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, to film, music, human animality, and more generally, the question of frontiers and boundaries. In addition to his �tudes c�zanniennes (2006) and a scholarly edition of fifty-three of C�zanne's letters (2011), Lebensztejn has recently published D�placements, a collection of his essays concerned with questioning norms of taste and aesthetic values, as well as a translation of Lao Tzu, a study of Pygmalion, a conversation with Malcolm Morley. His most recent book on transgression in the works of Franz Kafka, Marquis de Sade, and Comte de Lautr�amont was published in 2017.
Jeff Nagy is a translator, critic, and historian of technology based in Palo Alto, California. His research focuses on networks pre- and post-Internet and the development of digital labor.
"In the book Pissing Figures - an academic volume with an aptly deep-orange cover - art historian Jean-Claude Lebensztejn unpacks the complexities of urination in Western art."--Staff "032c"
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