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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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  • Nakas, Kassandra
  • Ullrich, Jessica
  • Nakas, Kassandra, 19XX
  • Ullrich, Jessica.
Description
188 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subject
  • Art > Philosophy
  • Art and morals
  • Art and society
  • Vulgarity
  • 20.10 art and society: general
  • 20.02 philosophy and theory of the art sciences
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.
ISBN
  • 9783897397675
  • 3897397676
LCCN
2014443982
OCLC
  • ocn883655902
  • 883655902
  • SCSB-1781381
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library