Art and Pornography
Philosophical Essays
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 July 2015
- ISBN 9780198744085
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 233x161x18 mm
- Weight 518 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Do art and pornography overlap, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? Art and Pornography explores the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature. A team of leading scholars develops a subtle understanding of sexual imagery and themes, in a range of cultural contexts.
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Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? If they are not, how might we characterize pornographic art or artistic pornography, and how might pornographic art be distinguished, if at all, from erotic art? Can there be aesthetic experience of pornography? What are some of the psychological, social, and political consequences of the creation and appreciation of erotic art or artistic pornography? Leading scholars from around the world address these questions, and more, and bring together different aesthetic perspectives and approaches to this widely consumed, increasingly visible, yet aesthetically underexplored cultural domain. The book, the first of its kind in philosophical aesthetics, will contribute to a more accurate and subtle understanding of the many representations that incorporate explicit sexual imagery and themes, in both high art and demotic culture, in Western and non-Western contexts. It is sure to stir debate, and healthy controversy.
Maes and Levinson's book demonstrates clearly the wide range of current issues that connect aesthetics with pornography, and will be a landmark collection on the topic.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Pornography, Erotica, and Art
Who Says Pornography Can't Be Art?
The Pornographic, the Erotic, the Charming, and the Sublime
Pornography, Art, and the Intended Response of the Receiver
Is Pornographic Art Comparable to Religious Art? Reply to Davies
II. Pornography, Imagination, and Fiction
Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual Desire
Pornography and Imagining about Oneself
Pornography at the Edge: Depiction, Fiction, and Sexual Predeliction
III. Pornography, Medium, and Genre
Why Do Porn Films Suck
Anti-Pornography: André Kertész's Distortions
An Aesthetics of Transgressive Pornography
IV. Pornography, Ethics, and Feminism
On the Ethical Distinction Between Art and Pornography
Concepts of Pornography: Aesthetics, Feminism, and Methodology
What's Wrong With The (Female) Nude? A Feminist Perspective on Art and Pornography
Taking a Moral Perspective: On Voyeurism in Art
Index
