Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography

Author:   H. Maes
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780230368200


Pages:   318
Publication Date:   19 November 2013
Format:   Hardback
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What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations.

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Author:   H. Maes
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   5.023kg
ISBN:  

9780230368200


ISBN 10:   0230368204
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   19 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Hans Maes PART I: ART OR PORN : CLEAR DIVISION OR FALSE DILEMMA? 1. Pornography, Art, and Porno-Art; Mari Mikkola 2. Exclusivism and Evaluation: Art, Erotica, and Pornography; Stephanie Lynn Patridge 3. A Pornographic Way of Seeing; Stephen Mumford PART II: THE AESTHETICS OF PORNOGRAPHY: PHILOSOPHICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 4. Pornography and Acting; Tzachi Zamir 5. The Fictional Character of Pornography; Sam Liao and Sara Protasi 6. Image Economies and the Erotic Life of the Unlovely; Edward Winters PART III: THE AESTHETICS OF PORNOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES 7. Before Pornography: Sexual Representation in Ancient Roman Visual Culture; John Clarke 8. Sheela-na-gig Again: The Birth of a New Style From the Spirit of Pornography; Stefan Trinks 9. Aestheticising Pornography for the 21st-Century Academy: Pedagogy as Ars Erotica or Scientia Sexualis David Bennett PART IV: PORNOGRAPHIC ART: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS 10. Clean Feet and Dirty Dancing: The Erotic Pas de Deux and Boys in the Sand; Edward D. Miller 11. The Pornography of Death; John Tercier 12. Porno-Graphic: Why Words Matter in Fiona Banner's Arsewoman in Wonderland; Kim Dhillon PART V: PORNOGRAPHIC ART: THEORY IN PRACTICE 13. A Queer Balance: Power Relations in Homosexual Representations and in Choosing Flowers; Michael Petry 14. The Fluidity of Acceptability: Seduced by Art and Pornography and the Kinsey Institute Collection;Marina Wallace 15. My Pornographic Development; Anna Arrowsmith Index

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Anna Arrowsmith has been directing pornographic films since graduating from Central St Martin's in 1998 David Bennett, University of Melbourne, Australia, and University of Essex, UK John R. Clarke, University of Texas at Austin, USA Kim Dhillon, Royal College of Art, London, UK Shen-yi Liao Nanyang, Technological University, Singapore, and University of Leeds, UK Mari Mikkola, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Edward D. Miller, College of Staten Island, USA Stephen Mumford, University of Nottingham, UK, and Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) Stephanie Patridge, Otterbein University, USA Michael Petry is an artist, curator and author Sara Protasi, Yale University, USA John Tercier MD PhD practices as an emergency medicine specialist in Canada Stefan Trinks, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Marina Wallace, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK Edward Winters, studied Painting at The Slade before taking a Philosophy PhD at UCL, UK Tzachi Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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