This book is so new that its copyright page says "Published in 2007". It's a short though dense overview of transgression, abjection, violence, and death in the arts. The author, Kerstin Mey, discusses obscenity in art photography and performance art, and her study is valuable as it's the first of its kind. She covers all the main bases - Julia Kristeva, Georges Bataille, Hermann Nitsch, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano, Ron Athey - and it's exciting to see them all discussed together.
I've been waiting for a book exactly like this for a long time, because transgressive art is one of my favourite topics. In fact, the book quotes my website, though indirectly. My interpretation of Jeff Koons's photographs is quoted (with acknowledgement) at jahsonic.com, and Art & Obscenity quotes my text though it references Jahsonic but not me.
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2 Comments:
you should look at drawn together on youtube for obcenitys and C**T stuff as wellas ive mentioned in the past family guy
I'd not heard of Drawn Together, but the clips on youtube.com are quite funny.
The play Family Guy on the plane when I go to the UK and back. It's funny and clever, but you can see that it's totally influenced by The Simpsons.
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