Art and obscenity / Kerstin Mey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mey, Kerstin, author.

Series:

Art and-.

Art and--

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Erotic art--Social aspects.

Erotic art.

Obscenity (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2007.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of "obscenity" remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is "obscene" shift with societies' shifting mores, and our responses to explicit or disturbing material can be highly subjective. In this intelligent and sensitive book, Kerstin Mey grapples with the work of twentieth century artists practising at the edges of acceptability, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Mey refuses sweeping statements and "kneejerk" responses, arguing with dexterity that some works, regardless of their "high art" context, remain deeply problematic, while others are both groundbreaking and liberating.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1. 'I Know It When I See It' : On the definition and history of the category of the obscene

Chapter 2. Transgressive Rituals

Chapter 3. Abjection and Dis-ease

Chapter 4. Violent Images : Aesthetic Simulations

Chapter 5. 'Playing with the Dead' : The cadaver as fascinosum

Chapter 6. Anti-Normative Acts : Radical liberation?

Chapter 7. Obscenity and the Documentary Tradition

Chapter 8. Recycled Fantasies : Obscenity between kitsch, convention and innovation

Chapter 9. 'Know Thyself'?

Chapter 10. Digital (Counter-)Currents

Chapter 11. Cyber-(ob)scene

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780857732781

0857732781

9780755604180

0755604180

9780857710567

0857710567

9786000009625

6000009623

9781429480000

1429480009

OCLC:

710975815