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Scenes of the obscene : the non-representable in art and visual culture, Middle Ages to today

Title
Scenes of the obscene : the non-representable in art and visual culture, Middle Ages to today / edited by Kassandra Nakas and Jessica Ullrich.
Publication
  • Weimar : VDG, Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Nakas, Kassandra
  • Ullrich, Jessica
  • Nakas, Kassandra, 19XX.
  • Ullrich, Jessica.
Description
188 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / Kassandra Nakas, Jessica Ullrich -- I. Bodies of transgression -- Inside out. Scatology in medieval art / Anja Grebe -- Warnings of morality or downright twisted pleasure? William Hogarth's depiction of violence / Patricia Bass -- II. Visual pleasures and sexual acts -- 'Bestial desire': about the silent sin against nature. Sodimia and bestiality in early modern art / Thomas Martin -- "Taming the subject through gracefulness." Erotic literature in German art nouveau / Kassandra Nakas -- Queering bestiality. Visual pleasure and the obscene / Massimo Perinelli -- III. Violence and death -- Cutting the throat. Obscenity and the case of the Johannesschüssel / Barbara Baert -- Cocking the trigger: explicit male performance and its consequences / Karen Gonzales Rice -- "Animals were harmed in the making of this artwork." The visibility of animal death in artworks / Jessica Ullrich.
Call Number
JQD 15-176
ISBN
  • 9783897397675
  • 3897397676
OCLC
883655902
Title
Scenes of the obscene : the non-representable in art and visual culture, Middle Ages to today / edited by Kassandra Nakas and Jessica Ullrich.
Publisher
Weimar : VDG, Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Nakas, Kassandra, editor.
Ullrich, Jessica, editor.
Nakas, Kassandra, 19XX. Editor
Ullrich, Jessica. Editor
Research Call Number
JQD 15-176
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