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Author : Peter Michelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003881724
Presents the argument that pornography is a distinctive literary genre, providing insight into man's demonic side.
Author : H. Maes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137367938
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 : Shelton Waldrep
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501333064
As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the emphasis on the body, looking, and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole. The Space of Sex's second half focuses on how sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in several recent films, including Paul Schrader's The Canyons (2013), Oliver Stone's Savages (2012), Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike (2012), Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac (2013), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon (2013). Each of these mainstream or independent movies, and several more, are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography, if not the pornography industry specifically, into their plot. According to Waldrep, the utopian elements of seventies porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century as both a utopian impulse-the desire to have sex on the screen, to re-eroticize sex as something positive and lacking in shame-with a mixed feeling about pornography itself, with an industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words, sex, in our contemporary world, still does not come without compromise.
Author : Adrian Nathan West
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781910924198
Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities and outrage. But what are the moral and psychological consequences of the mercantilization of abuse? In this studied and ruthless examination of the place of pornography in contemporary life, translator and critic Adrian Nathan West treads dangerous literary and social ground, transcending cliches about free expression and the demands of the market to look at the moral discomfort of violent pornography from the perspective of the viewer. Collapsing distinctions between novel, memoir, and essay, this book will not make for light reading. But at its core is an extraordinarily brave and honest concern for the women and men who have been hurt in the name of sexual gratification.
Author : H. Maes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137367938
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 : Hans Maes,Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198744080
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 : Allison Pease
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521780764
Examines the changing relationship between art and pornography from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Author : Mark Pasquinelli
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783668165014
Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, , language: English, abstract: The one true thing that can be said about pornography is that it rates, at most, second place. Flesh takes first prize. Yet, when it comes to fulfilling sexual intimacy, humans encounter what artists face daily: The ideal, lodged inside our heads and hearts, cannot be realized in paint, marble, or language. But do not panic: Pornography comes to the rescue! Whether a person enjoys or condemns porn, a deeper understanding of its allure requires that we examine the literary trope called “hyperbole”—the least examined of tropes, often relegated to the domain of fools, liars, Dr. Seuss, Shakespeare, and Jesus.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Pornographic films
ISBN : 0972045600
Author : Romana Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441158796
To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault's assertions that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern Western culture while ars erotica belongs to Eastern and ancient societies, Byrne suggests that modern Western culture has indeed witnessed a form of ars erotica, encompassed in what she calls 'aesthetic sexuality'. To argue for the existence of aesthetic sexuality, Byrne examines mainly works of literature to show how, within these texts, sexual practice and pleasure are constructed as having aesthetic value, a quality that marks these experiences as forms of art. In aesthetic sexuality, value and meaning are located within sexual practice and pleasure rather than in their underlying cause; sexuality's raison d'être is tied to its aesthetic value, at surface level rather than beneath it. Aesthetic sexuality, Byrne shows, is a product of choice, a deliberate strategy of self-creation as well as a mode of social communication.
Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781466853584
Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.
Author : Mari Mikkola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190640088
Debates over pornography tend to be heated and deeply polarized--as with other topics that have to do with sex, pornography cuts to the core of our values and convictions. Philosophical debates concerning pornography are fraught with difficult questions: What is pornography? What does pornography do (if anything at all)? Is the consumption of pornography a harmless private matter, or does pornography violate women's civil rights? What, if anything, should legally be done about pornography? Can there be a genuinely feminist pro-pornography stance? Answering these questions is complicated by widespread confusion over the conceptual and political commitments of different anti- and pro-pornography positions, and whether these positions are even in tension with one another. For a start, different people understand pornography differently and can easily end up talking past one another. In order to clarify the debate and make genuine philosophical headway in discussing the topic of pornography, Mari Mikkola here provides an accessible introduction to contemporary philosophical debates conducted from a feminist philosophical perspective. The starting point of the book's examination is morally neutral, and the book provides a comprehensive discussion of various philosophical positions on pornography that are found in ethics, aesthetics, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and social ontology. The book clarifies different stances in the debate, thus clarifying and helping readers to understand what exactly is as stake. In addition, although the book does not argue for a single outlook, it puts forward substantive philosophical views on different aspects of philosophical debates about pornography. Mikkola ultimately offers readers important methodological insights about doing philosophical work on something as ubiquitous as pornography.
Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0822323435
An examination of how sexual fantasy and pornography are policed in contemporary American culture.
Author : Jerrold Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521788056
This major collection of essays examines issues surrounding aesthetics and ethics.
Author : Tanya Whitehouse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030030650
This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value. It draws on a variety of sources to explore modern ruins, the ruin tradition, and the phenomenon of “ruin porn.” It features an unusual and original combination of philosophical analysis, the author’s photography, and reviews of both new and historically influential case studies, including Richard Haag’s Gas Works Park, the ruins of Detroit, and remnants of the steel industry of Pennsylvania. Tanya Whitehouse shows how the users of ruins can become architects of a new order, transforming derelict sites into aesthetically significant places we should preserve.