Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography

What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations.

Anna Arrowsmith has been directing pornographic films since graduating from Central St Martin's in 1998 David Bennett, University of Melbourne, Australia, and University of Essex, UK John R. Clarke, University of Texas at Austin, USA Kim Dhillon, Royal College of Art, London, UK Shen-yi Liao Nanyang, Technological University, Singapore, and University of Leeds, UK Mari Mikkola, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Edward D. Miller, College of Staten Island, USA Stephen Mumford, University of Nottingham, UK, and Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) Stephanie Patridge, Otterbein University, USA Michael Petry is an artist, curator and author Sara Protasi, Yale University, USA John Tercier MD PhD practices as an emergency medicine specialist in Canada Stefan Trinks, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Marina Wallace, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK Edward Winters, studied Painting at The Slade before taking a Philosophy PhD at UCL, UK Tzachi Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel