03097nam 2200601Ia 450 991081197770332120200520144314.00-85773-278-10-7556-0418-00-85771-056-7600-00-0962-31-4294-8000-910.5040/9780755604180(CKB)1000000000473151(EBL)676931(OCoLC)710975815(MiAaPQ)EBC676931(CaBNVSL)mat55604180(OCoLC)159958315(CaBNVSL)9780755604180(EXLCZ)99100000000047315120060710d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierArt and obscenity /Kerstin MeyFirst edition.London ;New York, NY I.B. Taurus20071 online resource (193 p.)Art andDescription based upon print version of record.1-84511-234-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Art and--Obscenity (Law)ArtSocial aspectsErotic artSocial aspectsObscenity (Law)ArtSocial aspects.Erotic artSocial aspects.704.9/428Mey Kerstin1600884MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811977703321Art and obscenity3924222UNINA