Art and Obscenity by Mey, Kerstin

Art and Obscenity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845112356)

Vendor: Kerstin Mey
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Format: Paperback
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Art and Obscenity by Mey, Kerstin

Art and Obscenity

$35.95
Art and Obscenity by Mey, Kerstin

Art and Obscenity

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is 'obscene' shift with societies' shifting mores, and our responses to explicit or disturbing material can be highly subjective. In this intelligent and sensitive book, Kerstin Mey grapples with the work of twentieth-century artists practising at the edges of acceptability, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Mey refuses sweeping statements and 'knee-jerk' responses, arguing with dexterity that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating.

Author: Kerstin Mey
ISBN-10: 1845112350
ISBN-13: 9781845112356
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2006
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.96w x 0.52d
By Kerstin Mey
By Kerstin Mey
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Kerstin Mey is Chair in Fine Art and Research Leader on the 'Interface' project (Research in Art Technologies and Design) at the University of Ulster. She is General Editor of the Transcript series published by the School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, in association with Manchester University Press.

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