Modernism, mass culture, and the aesthetics of obscenity
Auteur :
Pease, Allison
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521100953
Date de publication :
5 févr. 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
640 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book explores the relationship between art and pornography from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Allison Pease focuses on how writers such as Swinburne, Joyce and Lawrence and artist Aubrey Beardsley shifted the boundaries between aesthetics and pornography first established in the 1700s to reinforce class distinctions.