The Art of Pleasure E-Book

Hans-Jürgen Döpp

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Kategorie: Erotik
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 17

Beschreibung

The Art of Pleasure

Leseprobe

Hans-Jürgen Döpp

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ISBN: 978-1-63919-957-0

Contents

Erotic art or pornography?

XVI - XVII Century

XVIII Century

XIX Century

XX Century

Index

Erotic art or pornography?

How might one define erotic art? This much is certain, the depiction of a sexual activity alone does not raise a work to the nobility of erotic art. To identify erotic art only within its content would reduce it to one dimension, just as it is not possible to distinguish artistic and pornographic depictions only by describing their immoral content.

The view that erotic works are created solely for sexual arousal and so cannot be art is also erroneous. The creative imagination involved in erotic art does not necessarily distinguish it from pornography, which is also a product of the fantasy. Erotic art has to be more than just a depiction of sexual reality, or who would buy it? Gunter Schmidt states that pornography is “constructed like sexual fantasy and daydreams, just as unreal, megalomaniacal, magical, illogical, and just as stereotypical.”

In any case, those making a choice between art and pornography may have already decided against the first. Pornography is a moralizing defamatory term. What is art to one person is the devil’s handiwork to another. The mixing of aesthetic with ethical-moralistic questions dooms every clarification process right from the start.