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Author Mey, Kerstin

Title Art and Obscenity
Published London : I.B. Tauris & Co., 2006

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Series Art and Series
Art and Series
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'I Know It When I See It': On the definition of the category of the obscene; 2. Transgressive Rituals; 3. Abjection and Dis-ease; 4. Violent Images: Aesthetic Simulations; 5. 'Playing with the Dead': The cadaver as fascinosum; 6. Anti-Normative Acts: Radical liberation?; 7. Obscenity and the Documentary Tradition; 8. Recycled Fantasies; 9. 'Know Thyself'?; 10. Digital (Counter- ) Currents; 11. Cyber-(ob)scene; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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 McCart
Notes Print version record
Subject Obscenity (Law)
Art and society.
Erotic art -- Social aspects
Art and society
Obscenity (Law)
Beeldende kunsten.
Obsceniteiten.
Erotiek.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857710567
0857710567
9780857732781
0857732781