OxfOr d U niv ersit y Pr ess
Contemplating Art
Essays in Aesthetics
Jerrold Levinson
he Aesthetic Mind
Philosophy and Psychology
edited by elisabeth schellekens and
Peter Goldie
Everyday Aesthetics
yuriko saito
Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic
status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, ilms, 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 diferent aesthetic perspectives
and approaches to this widely consumed, increasingly visible, yet aesthetically
underexplored cultural domain. he book, the irst 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.
Contributors
Brandon Cooke, david davies, A. W. eaton, Andrew Kania, Hans Maes,
Christy Mag Uidhir, Jerrold Levinson, Bence nanay, Alex neill,
Michael newall, Henry John Pratt, Jesse Prinz, Petra van Brabandt,
elisabeth schellekens, Kathleen stock, Cain todd
Jacket illustration: cache for Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde, 1955, by André Masson.
Private collection. © dACs, London 2012, and AdAGP, Banque d’images, Paris 2012
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Hans Maes received his Phd from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Helsinki,
finland, and University of Maryland, UsA. He
is currently Lecturer in History and Philosophy
of Art at the University of Kent and Associate
director of the Aesthetics research Group. He
has authored papers on a variety of subjects in
aesthetics, including the role of intention in the
interpretation of art, the notion of free beauty,
and the relation between art and pornography.
in 2010 he was elected President of the dutch
society for Aesthetics.
Jerrold Levinson is distinguished Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Maryland,
College Park, where he has taught since 1976.
He is the author of Music, Art, and Metaphysics
(Cornell University Press, 1990), he Pleasures
of Aesthetics (Cornell University Press, 1996),
Music in the Moment (Cornell University Press,
1998), L’art, la musique, et l’histoire (editions de
l’eclat, 1998), La musique de ilm: iction et narration (Presses Universitaires de Pau, 2000), and
Contemplating Art (OUP, 2006), as well as editor
of Aesthetics and Ethics (CUP, 1998) and he
Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (OUP, 2003), and
co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (OUP, 2001).
Art &
Pornography
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