Scenes of the obscene
Subtitle: the non-representable in art and visual culture, Middle Ages to today
By: edited by Kassandra Nakas and Jessica Ullrich
Publisher: VDG, Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Weimar
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9783897397675
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Art; Philosophy; Art and morals; Art and society; Vulgarity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Kassandra Nakas, -- Jessica Ullrich -- I.; title: Bodies of transgression --; title: Inside out. Scatology in medieval art  -- Anja Grebe; title: Warnings of morality or downright twisted pleasure? William Hogarth's depiction of violence  -- Patricia Bass -- II.; title: Visual pleasures and sexual acts --; title: 'Bestial desire': about the silent sin against nature. Sodimia and bestiality in early modern art  -- Thomas Martin; title: "Taming the subject through gracefulness." Erotic literature in German art nouveau  -- Kassandra Nakas; title: Queering bestiality. Visual pleasure and the obscene  -- Massimo Perinelli -- III.; title: Violence and death --; title: Cutting the throat. Obscenity and the case of the Johannesschüssel  -- Barbara Baert; title: Cocking the trigger: explicit male performance and its consequences  -- Karen Gonzales Rice; title: "Animals were harmed in the making of this artwork." The visibility of animal death in artworks -- Jessica Ullrich.