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Barbequeer March 2020
(Paperback)
Zakar Brothers; Contributions by Cheyenne Parker, Alexander Jamall
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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.
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