Art/porn : a history of seeing and touching / Kelly Dennis.
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009.Description: xvi, 247 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781847880673 (pbk.)
- 1847880576 (cloth)
- 704.9 DEN
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Do we really know pornography when we see it? Pornography is condemned for being "too close" whilst erotica is defended as "leaving room for the imagination." And the art of the nude is treated as something much more special, located even further away from the potential of arousal.
Art/Porn argues that these distinctions are based on an age-old antithesis between sight and touch, an antithesis created and maintained for centuries by art criticism. Art has always elicited a struggle between the senses, between something to be viewed and something to be touched, between visual and visceral pleasure.
Images compel the senses in ways that are both taboo and intrinsic to art. Contemporary responses to images of the nude embody this longstanding tension. Our fears about the materiality of art when in close proximity to our own bodies exist alongside a regulation of sensory response which dates back to Antiquity.
Art/Porn reveals how - from fondling statues in Antiquity to point-and-click Internet pornography - the worlds of art and pornography are much closer than we think.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-237) and index.
Introduction -- Seduction and illusion: sculpture and painting from antiquity to the enlightenment. Art and erotic pleasure -- Art made flesh: Pygmalion and the rhetoric of the flesh -- Seeing and touching: photography and the birth of the modern. Debbie does modernism: photographing the nude in the nineteenth century -- Photography, fetish, voyeur: pornography before the Internet -- Porn into art: the end of sex in the twenty-first century. Hard-core art: internet porn and new media -- Sex in the museum: pornography without touching -- Conclusion.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- General introduction
- Part 1 Time And Work Discipline
- Sectional Introduction
- 1 Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism
- 2 The production of possession: Spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia
- 3 Satanic fields, pleasant mills: work in an Indian steel plant
- 4 Peasant time and factory time in Japan
- Part 2 Work Organisation
- Sectional Introduction
- 5 Scientific Management
- 6 Thirty years of making out
- 7 Controlling the line
- 8 The nuclear everyday
- Part 3 'work' And 'life'
- Sectional Introduction
- 9 Emerging alienation in production: a Maussian history
- 10 Gendered Meanings in Contention
- 11 Local Despotism
- 12 The enterprise as a community
- 13 Yoseba and Ninpudashi: Changing Patterns of Employment on the fringes of the Japanese Economy
- 14 Femininity and flexible labor: Fashioning class through gender on the global assembly line
- Part 4 Industrial Development As Telos
- Sectional Introduction
- 15 Anthropological problems arising from the African Industrial Revolution
- 16 Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism
- 17 Despair
- 18 The Poetics of Productivity
- 19 Asking for and giving baki
- Part 5 The Working Class?
- Sectional Introduction
- 20 Bourgeois and proletarians
- 21 Perspectives on the politics of class
- 22 Class structure in the classic slum
- 23 The cultural roots of working class identity in the Bolivian tin mines
- 24 Learning to Protest in Japan
- Bibliography
- Index