The Art of Porn
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780972045605
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780972045605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kelly Dennis
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2009-03
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt/Porn argues the distinctions between erotica and pornography are based on an age-old antithesis between sigh and touch, an antithesis created and maintained for centuries by art criticism. It reveals how the world of art and pornography are much closer than we think.--Back cover.
Author: H. Maes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 1137367938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat 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.
Author: Hans Maes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015-07-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780198744085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt 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.
Author: Morse Peckham
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tristan Taormino
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2013-02-19
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 155861818X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Feminist Porn Book celebrates the power of desire, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.
Author: Jon Huer
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen viewing the picture of a beautiful sunset, how many of us realize that, while we admire it as a work of art, we have just taken the very first step toward pornography? And that both the beauty in the sunset and the senses that recognize such beauty are very likely to be anti-art? Making a radical departure from the conventional wisdom on art and beauty, ART, BEAUTY, AND PORNOGRAPHY presents the startling thesis that things of beauty are not only unrelated to art but often responsible for pornography. How is this possible? In this controversial work, Huer argues that beauty pleases the senses, which demand to be pleased with each new stimulation. In a society whose members put a premium on pleasurable things, it is natural that the visual medium occupies a commanding position among forms of cultural expression. In the process of competing to please the human eye, American society (the most graphic and visual civilization to date) concentrates on objects and events that please consumers and, by doing so, sell products. Much of this sense-pleasing business takes place in the name of art. But those senses pleased by what is beautiful are the same senses that receive gratification from the pornographic. Art has no place in this process. Based on these arguments, Huer makes a strong case for re-orienting the purpose of art. Drawing on historical experience in the West, he defines art as a statement about life: pain, wisdom, and happiness embodied in the life process. The artist is a teacher of life, the artwork his philosophy, and the art public the beneficiaries of his teaching. Neither beauty nor sensory pleasure, therefore, has anything to do with art. This important volume is, above all, a critique of contemporary American culture directed most especially to society's confusion about art, beauty, and pornography, and its willingness to allow business to assert dominion over artistic impulse. ART, BEAUTY, AND PORNOGRAPHY is a searing commentary on the follies of our time as well as an inspired defense of high art and the creative spirit.
Author: Cassidy Hughes
Publisher: Painters
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781861717382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and detailed survey of erotic art from ancient times to the present day.
Author: Chris Offutt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1501112473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir in which "writer Chris Offutt struggles to understand his recently deceased father based on his reading of the 400-plus novels [Andrew Offutt]--a well-known writer of pornography in the 1970s and 80s--left him in his will"--Publisher marketing.
Author: Charles Nussbaum
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-13
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1137556765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism.