Do art and pornography overlap, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? Art and Pornography explores the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature. A team of leading scholars develops a subtle understanding of sexual imagery and themes, in a range of cultural contexts.
Do art and pornography overlap, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? Art and Pornography explores the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature. A team of leading scholars develops a subtle understanding of sexual imagery and themes, in a range of cultural contexts.
Hans Maes received his PhD from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and University of Maryland, USA. He is currently Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent and Associate Director of the Aesthetics Research Group. He has authored papers on a variety of subjects in aesthetics, including the role of intention in the interpretation of art, the notion of free beauty, and the relation between art and pornography. In 2010 he was elected President of the Dutch Society for Aesthetics. Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he has taught since 1976. He is the author of Music, Art, and Metaphysics (Cornell University Press, 1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (Cornell University Press, 1996), Music in the Moment (Cornell University Press, 1998), L=art, la musique, et l=histoire (Editions de l'eclat, 1998), La musique de film: fiction et narration (Presses Universitaires de Pau, 2000), and Contemplating Art (OUP, 2006), as well as editor of Aesthetics and Ethics (CUP, 1998) and The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (OUP, 2003), and co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (OUP, 2001).
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * I. Pornography, Erotica, and Art * 1: Hans Maes: Who Says Pornography Can't Be Art? * 2: Alex Neill: The Pornographic, the Erotic, the Charming, and the Sublime * 3: David Davies: Pornography, Art, and the Intended Response of the Receiver * 4: Jerrold Levinson: Is Pornographic Art Comparable to Religious Art? Reply to Davies * II. Pornography, Imagination, and Fiction * 5: Cain Todd: Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual Desire * 6: Kathleen Stock: Pornography and Imagining about Oneself * 7: Christy Mag Uidhir and Henry John Pratt: Pornography at the Edge: Depiction, Fiction, and Sexual Predeliction * III. Pornography, Medium, and Genre * 8: Petra van Brabandt and Jesse Prinz: Why Do Porn Films Suck * 9: Bence Nanay: Anti-Pornography: André Kertész's Distortions * 10: Michael Newall: An Aesthetics of Transgressive Pornography * IV. Pornography, Ethics, and Feminism * 11: Brandon Cooke: On the Ethical Distinction Between Art and Pornography * 12: Andrew Kania: Concepts of Pornography: Aesthetics, Feminism, and Methodology * 13: A. W. Eaton: What's Wrong With The (Female) Nude? A Feminist Perspective on Art and Pornography * 14: Elisabeth Schellekens: Taking a Moral Perspective: On Voyeurism in Art * Index
* Introduction * I. Pornography, Erotica, and Art * 1: Hans Maes: Who Says Pornography Can't Be Art? * 2: Alex Neill: The Pornographic, the Erotic, the Charming, and the Sublime * 3: David Davies: Pornography, Art, and the Intended Response of the Receiver * 4: Jerrold Levinson: Is Pornographic Art Comparable to Religious Art? Reply to Davies * II. Pornography, Imagination, and Fiction * 5: Cain Todd: Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual Desire * 6: Kathleen Stock: Pornography and Imagining about Oneself * 7: Christy Mag Uidhir and Henry John Pratt: Pornography at the Edge: Depiction, Fiction, and Sexual Predeliction * III. Pornography, Medium, and Genre * 8: Petra van Brabandt and Jesse Prinz: Why Do Porn Films Suck * 9: Bence Nanay: Anti-Pornography: André Kertész's Distortions * 10: Michael Newall: An Aesthetics of Transgressive Pornography * IV. Pornography, Ethics, and Feminism * 11: Brandon Cooke: On the Ethical Distinction Between Art and Pornography * 12: Andrew Kania: Concepts of Pornography: Aesthetics, Feminism, and Methodology * 13: A. W. Eaton: What's Wrong With The (Female) Nude? A Feminist Perspective on Art and Pornography * 14: Elisabeth Schellekens: Taking a Moral Perspective: On Voyeurism in Art * Index
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