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Beschreibung
Do we really know pornography when we see it? Pornography is condemned for being "too close" whilst erotica is defended as "leaving room for the imagination." And the art of the nude is treated as something much more special, located even further away from the potential of arousal.

Art/Porn argues that these distinctions are based on an age-old antithesis between sight and touch, an antithesis created and maintained for centuries by art criticism. Art has always elicited a struggle between the senses, between something to be viewed and something to be touched, between visual and visceral pleasure.

Images compel the senses in ways that are both taboo and intrinsic to art. Contemporary responses to images of the nude embody this longstanding tension. Our fears about the materiality of art when in close proximity to our own bodies exist alongside a regulation of sensory response which dates back to Antiquity.

Art/Porn reveals how - from fondling statues in Antiquity to point-and-click Internet pornography - the worlds of art and pornography are much closer than we think.
Do we really know pornography when we see it? Pornography is condemned for being "too close" whilst erotica is defended as "leaving room for the imagination." And the art of the nude is treated as something much more special, located even further away from the potential of arousal.

Art/Porn argues that these distinctions are based on an age-old antithesis between sight and touch, an antithesis created and maintained for centuries by art criticism. Art has always elicited a struggle between the senses, between something to be viewed and something to be touched, between visual and visceral pleasure.

Images compel the senses in ways that are both taboo and intrinsic to art. Contemporary responses to images of the nude embody this longstanding tension. Our fears about the materiality of art when in close proximity to our own bodies exist alongside a regulation of sensory response which dates back to Antiquity.

Art/Porn reveals how - from fondling statues in Antiquity to point-and-click Internet pornography - the worlds of art and pornography are much closer than we think.
Über den Autor
Kelly Dennis is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Zusammenfassung
Also available in hardback, 9781847880574 £55.00 (March, 2009)
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Pornography in Visual Culture
1. Art and Erotic Enjoyment
2. Art Made Flesh: the physical contact of art
3. Pygmalion: photographing the nude in the 19th Century
4. The Object of Pornography: Photography and the Fetish
5. Hard Core Art: Digital Porn and 'New' Media
6. Sex in the Museum: Pornography without Touching
Conclusion: Pornography and surveillance culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781847880673
ISBN-10: 1847880673
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dennis, Kelly
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 244 x 170 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Kelly Dennis
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2009
Gewicht: 0,462 kg
Artikel-ID: 132029822