Art/porn; a history of seeing and touching.

9781847880673

Art/porn; a history of seeing and touching.

Dennis, Kelly.

Berg Publishers

2009

247 pages

$29.95

Paperback

NX650

Art and pornography have been said to define each other. Through postmodern analyses of classic nude sculpture, painting, photography, Internet images, the Museum of Sex, and performance art, Dennis (modern and contemporary art history, U. of Connecticut, Storrs) examines the philosophical fine line between the two. For example, in treating issues of gender, feminist views, class, power, and representation in Barbara DeGenieve's Desperado (2004-6) Web video project, in which she becomes involved with one of the nude males she is filming, he asks who is exploiting whom? The book includes art and photographic images. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan.

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