Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography [Hardcover]

What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Hans Maes PART I: ART OR PORN : CLEAR DIVISION OR FALSE DILEMMA? 1. Pornography, Art, and Porno-Art; Mari Mikkola 2. Exclusivism and Evaluation: Art, Erotica, and Pornography; Stephanie Lynn Patridge 3. A Pornographic Way of Seeing; Stephen Mumford PART II: THE AESTHETICS OF PORNOGRAPHY: PHILOSOPHICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 4. Pornography and Acting; Tzachi Zamir 5. The Fictional Character of Pornography; Sam Liao and Sara Protasi 6. Image Economies and the Erotic Life of the Unlovely; Edward Winters PART III: THE AESTHETICS OF PORNOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES 7. Before Pornography: Sexual Representation in Ancient Roman Visual Culture; John Clarke 8. Sheela-na-gig Again: The Birth of a New Style From the Spirit of Pornography; Stefan Trinks 9. Aestheticising Pornography for the 21st-Century Academy: Pedagogy as Ars Erotica or Scientia Sexualis David Bennett PART IV: PORNOGRAPHIC ART: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS 10. Clean Feet and Dirty Dancing: The Erotic Pas de Deux and Boys in the Sand; Edward D. Miller 11. The Pornography of Death; John Tercier 12. Porno-Graphic: Why Words Matter in Fiona Banner's Arsewoman in Wonderland; Kim Dhillon PART V: PORNOGRAPHIC ART: THEORY IN PRACTICE 13. A Queer Balance: Power Relations in Homosexual Representations and in Choosing Flowers; Michael Petry 14. The Fluidity of Acceptability: Seduced by Art and Pornography and the Kinsey Institute Collection; Marina Wallace 15. My Pornographic Development; Anna Arrowsmith IndexAnna Arrowsmith has been directing pornographic films since graduating from Central St Martin's in 1998David Bennett, University of Melbourne, AlÃ"