Art Beauty And Pornography

Author : Jon Huer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015012266220

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Art, Beauty, and Pornography by Jon Huer Pdf

When 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 : H. Maes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137367938

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Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography by H. Maes Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0812695402

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The Abuse of Beauty by Arthur C. Danto Pdf

Leading art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto here explains how the anti-beauty revolution was hatched, and how the modernist avant-garde dislodged beauty from its throne. Danto argues not only that the modernists were right to deny that beauty is vital to art, but also that beauty is essential to human life and need not always be excluded from art.

Author : Hans Maes,Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198744080

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Art and Pornography by Hans Maes,Jerrold Levinson Pdf

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.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199229758

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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton Pdf

"First published in hardback as Beauty, 2009"--T.p. verso.

Author : Matthew Kieran
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0415278546

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Revealing Art by Matthew Kieran Pdf

Revealing Art is a stimulating and lucid book about why art is important and the role of the imagination in art, illustrated with colour and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and from Poussin to Pollock.

Author : Morse Peckham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050054660

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Art and Pornography by Morse Peckham Pdf

Author : Wendy Steiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226772403

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Venus in Exile by Wendy Steiner Pdf

In Venus in Exile renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of art—the female subject and ornament—became modernist taboos. To this day it is hard to champion beauty in art without sounding aesthetically or politically retrograde. Steiner argues instead that the experience of beauty is a form of communication, a subject-object interchange in which finding someone or something beautiful is at the same time recognizing beauty in oneself. This idea has led artists and writers such as Marlene Dumas, Christopher Bram, and Cindy Sherman to focus on the long-ignored figure of the model, who function in art as both a subject and an object. Steiner concludes Venus in Exile on a decidedly optimistic note, demonstrating that beauty has created a new and intensely pleasurable direction for contemporary artistic practice.

Author : Jon Huer
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0879724927

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The Great Art Hoax by Jon Huer Pdf

The Great Art Hoax exposes the real fakery and hypocrisy of the art world: how art is manufactured and marketed; how the pathology of private possession drives up the price; and how false art is hyped as true art to the tune of millions of dollars. Jon Huer demonstrates convincingly that what the art market deals as art need not be "art" at all.

Author : Cassidy Hughes
Publisher : Painters
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861717385

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Sex in Art by Cassidy Hughes Pdf

A comprehensive and detailed survey of erotic art from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521365597

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American Studies by Jack Salzman Pdf

This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Author : Kelly Dennis
Publisher : Berg
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080859633

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Art/Porn by Kelly Dennis Pdf

Art/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 : Whitney Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231519557

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Queer Beauty by Whitney Davis Pdf

The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or dueling domains. In turn, sexual desire and aesthetic pleasure had to be profoundly rethought by later writers. Whitney Davis follows how such innovative thinkers as John Addington Symonds, Michel Foucault, and Richard Wollheim rejoined these two domains, reclaiming earlier insights about the mutual implication of sexuality and aesthetics. Addressing texts by Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, and Sigmund Freud, among many others, Davis criticizes modern approaches, such as Kantian idealism, Darwinism, psychoanalysis, and analytic aesthetics, for either reducing aesthetics to a question of sexuality or for removing sexuality from the aesthetic field altogether. Despite these schematic reductions, sexuality always returns to aesthetics, and aesthetic considerations always recur in sexuality. Davis particularly emphasizes the way in which philosophies of art since the late eighteenth century have responded to nonstandard sexuality, especially homoeroticism, and how theories of nonstandard sexuality have drawn on aesthetics in significant ways. Many imaginative and penetrating critics have wrestled productively, though often inconclusively and "against themselves," with the aesthetic making of sexual life and new forms of art made from reconstituted sexualities. Through a critique that confronts history, philosophy, science, psychology, and dominant theories of art and sexuality, Davis challenges privileged types of sexual and aesthetic creation imagined in modern culture-and assumed today.

Author : Catherine Wesselinoff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000933901

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The Revival of Beauty by Catherine Wesselinoff Pdf

This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author’s view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty—denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.

Author : Lynda Nead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134972760

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The Female Nude by Lynda Nead Pdf

Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes `art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of Western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status? The Female Nude brings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art, and by exploring the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced and maintained, renews recent debates on high culture and pornography. The Female Nude represents the first feminist survey of the most significant subject in Western art. It reveals how the female nude is now both at the centre and at the margins of high culture. At the centre, and within art historical discourse, the female nude is seen as the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the edge, it risks losing its repectability and spilling over into the obscene.