Art and obscenity
By: Kerstin Mey.
Series: Art and--
Publisher: I.B. Taurus
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781845112356; 9781845112349
Subjects: Sex in art; Erotic art; Taboo in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "I know it when I see it": on the definition and history of the category of the obscene; title: Transgressive rituals; title: Abjection and dis-ease; title: Violent images: aesthetic simulations; title: "Playing with the dead": the cadaver as fascinosum; title: Anti-normative acts: radical liberation?; title: Obscenity and the documentary tradition; title: Recycled fantasies: obscenity between kitsch, convention and innovation; title: "Know thyself"?; title: Digital (counter-)currents; title: Cyber-(ob)scene.