Art and Pornography

Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? If they are not, how might ...

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Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? If they are not, how might we characterize pornographic art or artistic pornography, and how might pornographic art be distinguished, if at all, from erotic art? Can there be aesthetic experience of pornography? What are some of the psychological, social, and political consequences of the creation and appreciation of erotic art or artistic pornography? Leading scholars from around the world address these questions, and more, and bring together different aesthetic perspectives and approaches to this widely consumed, increasingly visible, yet aesthetically underexplored cultural domain. The book, the first of its kind in philosophical aesthetics, will contribute to a more accurate and subtle understanding of the many representations that incorporate explicit sexual imagery and themes, in both high art and demotic culture, in Western and non-Western contexts. It is sure to stir debate, and healthy controversy.

Introduction 1
Hans Maes and Jerrold Levinson
I. Pornography, Erotica, and Art
1. Who Says Pornography Can’t Be Art? 17
Hans Maes
2. The Pornographic, the Erotic, the Charming, and the Sublime 48
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Introduction 1
Hans Maes and Jerrold Levinson
I. Pornography, Erotica, and Art
1. Who Says Pornography Can’t Be Art? 17
Hans Maes
2. The Pornographic, the Erotic, the Charming, and the Sublime 48
Alex Neill
3. Pornography, Art, and the Intended Response of the Receiver 61
David Davies
4. Is Pornographic Art Comparable to Religious Art? Reply to Davies 83
Jerrold Levinson
II. Pornography, Imagination, and Fiction
5. Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual Desire 95
Cain Todd
6. Pornography and Imagining about Oneself 116
Kathleen Stock
7. Pornography at the Edge: Depiction, Fiction, and Sexual Predilection 137
Christy Mag Uidhir and Henry John Pratt
III. Pornography, Medium, and Genre
8. Why Do Porn Films Suck? 161
Petra van Brabandt and Jesse Prinz
9. Anti-Pornography: Andre´ Kerte´sz’s Distortions 191
Bence Nanay
10. An Aesthetics of Transgressive Pornography 206
Michael Newall
IV. Pornography, Ethics, and Feminism
11. On the Ethical Distinction between Art and Pornography 229
Brandon Cooke
12. Concepts of Pornography: Aesthetics, Feminism, and Methodology 254
Andrew Kania
13. What’s Wrong with the (Female) Nude?
A Feminist Perspective on Art and Pornography 277
A. W. Eaton
14. Taking a Moral Perspective: On Voyeurism in Art 309
Elisabeth Schellekens
Index 329
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