Posing sex : toward a perceptual ethics for literary and visual art
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Posing sex : toward a perceptual ethics for literary and visual art
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index
Originally published: 2018
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Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about personhood.
It is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the "sex image," the artist's posing of human figures in the act of coitus, is an enduring compositional armature for artists from antiquity to the present. Singer, however, makes the quite controversial claim that this aesthetic practice, in literature and painting especially, serves as a powerful metier for exploring how the mind is continuous with the sensuously lively body rather than its rationalistic antagonist. Singer draws upon a rich philosophical tradition-from the Greek Stoics, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel to contemporary theorists of perception and aesthetic agency-to show how the stakes of aesthetic experience epitomized in the sex image are essentially ethical. Referencing a broad range of image-based artworks-literary, painterly, and cinematic-Singer illustrates the proposition that "posing sex" broadens the scope of our knowledge about how feeling reciprocates with reason-giving.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Posing Sex: Prospects for a Perceptual Ethics
2. Learning from Imagination: Re-Imagining Moral Knowledge
3. The Senses of Personhood: Beyond Allegories of the Body
4. The Impositions of Perception
5. Knowledge in the Flesh
Bibliography
Index
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