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Art and obscenity / / Kerstin Mey



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Autore: Mey Kerstin Visualizza persona
Titolo: Art and obscenity / / Kerstin Mey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2007
[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
Disciplina: 704.9/428
Soggetto topico: Art - Social aspects
Erotic art - Social aspects
Obscenity (Law)
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Art and obscenity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-85773-278-1
0-7556-0418-0
0-85771-056-7
600-00-0962-3
1-4294-8000-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777764503321
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Serie: Art and-.