03323nam 2200637 450 991081197770332120191118111955.00-85773-278-10-7556-0418-00-85771-056-7600-00-0962-31-4294-8000-910.5040/9780755604180(CKB)1000000000473151(EBL)676931(OCoLC)710975815(MiAaPQ)EBC676931(CaBNVSL)mat55604180(OCoLC)159958315(CaBNVSL)9780755604180(EXLCZ)99100000000047315120191118h20192007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierArt and obscenity /Kerstin MeyFirst edition.London [England] :I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,2007.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,2019.1 online resource (193 p.)Art and--Description based upon print version of record.1-84511-234-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) 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-.ArtSocial aspectsErotic artSocial aspectsObscenity (Law)History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -bicsscArtSocial aspects.Erotic artSocial aspects.Obscenity (Law).History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -704.9/428Mey Kerstin1600884NCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910811977703321Art and obscenity3924222UNINA