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Art or Porn? The popular media will often choose this heading when reviewing the latest sexually explicit novel, film, or art exhibition. The underlying assumption seems to be that the work under discussion has to be one or the other, and cannot be both. But is this not a false dilemma? Can one really draw a sharp line between the pornographic and the artistic? Isn't it time to make room for pornographic art and for an aesthetic investigation of pornography? In answering these questions this book will draw on insights from many different disciplines, including philosophy, feminist theory, aesthetics, art history, film studies, theatre studies, as well as on the experience of people who are actually operating in the art world and porn industry. By offering a variety of theoretical approaches and examples taken from a wide range of art forms and historical periods, the reader will gain a fuller and deeper comprehension of the relations and frictions between art and pornography.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Ethical issues & debates

• Full title: Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography
• Author: Hans Maes
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 318
• EAN: 9780230368200
• ISBN: 0230368204
• ID: 01324834
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 494 g
• Dimensions: 222 × 167 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. November 2013

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