Art/porn : a history of seeing and touching

Kelly Dennis

Do we really know pornography when we see it? Pornography is condemned for being "too close" whilst erotica is defended as "leaving room for the imagination." And the art of the nude is treated as something much more special, located even further away from the potential of arousal. Art/Porn argues that these distinctions are based on an age-old antithesis between sight and touch, an antithesis created and maintained for centuries by art criticism. Art has always elicited a struggle between the senses, between something to be viewed and something to be touched, between visual and visceral pleasure. Images compel the senses in ways that are both taboo and intrinsic to art. Contemporary responses to images of the nude embody this longstanding tension. Our fears about the materiality of art when in close proximity to our own bodies exist alongside a regulation of sensory response which dates back to Antiquity. Art/Porn reveals how - from fondling statues in Antiquity to point-and-click Internet pornography - the worlds of art and pornography are much closer than we think.

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Do we really know pornography when we see it? Pornography is condemned for being "too close" whilst erotica is defended as "leaving room for the imagination." And the art of the nude is treated as something much more special, located even further away from the potential of arousal. Art/Porn argues that these distinctions are based on an age-old antithesis between sight and touch, an antithesis created and maintained for centuries by art criticism. Art has always elicited a struggle between the senses, between something to be viewed and something to be touched, between visual and visceral pleasure. Images compel the senses in ways that are both taboo and intrinsic to art. Contemporary responses to images of the nude embody this longstanding tension. Our fears about the materiality of art when in close proximity to our own bodies exist alongside a regulation of sensory response which dates back to Antiquity. Art/Porn reveals how - from fondling statues in Antiquity to point-and-click Internet pornography - the worlds of art and pornography are much closer than we think.

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[目次]

  • Contents Introduction: Pornography in Visual Culture 1. Art and Erotic Enjoyment 2. Art Made Flesh: the physical contact of art 3. Pygmalion: photographing the nude in the 19th Century 4. The Object of Pornography: Photography and the Fetish 5. Hard Core Art: Digital Porn and 'New' Media 6. Sex in the Museum: Pornography without Touching Conclusion: Pornography and surveillance culture Notes Bibliography Index

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[目次]

  • Contents Introduction: Pornography in Visual Culture 1. Art and Erotic Enjoyment 2. Art Made Flesh: the physical contact of art 3. Pygmalion: photographing the nude in the 19th Century 4. The Object of Pornography: Photography and the Fetish 5. Hard Core Art: Digital Porn and 'New' Media 6. Sex in the Museum: Pornography without Touching Conclusion: Pornography and surveillance culture Notes Bibliography Index

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書名 Art/porn : a history of seeing and touching
著作者等 Kelly, Dennis D.
Dennis Kelly
出版元 Berg
刊行年月 2009
ページ数 xvi, 247 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 9781847880574
9781847880673
NCID BA9133017X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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