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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.
On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque
world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over
for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of
submission. Burlesque and the Art of the Teese "I advocate glamour.
Every day. Every minute." I'm a good dancer and a nice girl, but
I'm a great showgirl. I sell, in a word, magic. Burlesque is a
world of illusion and dreams and of course, the striptease. Whether
I am bathing in my martini glass, riding my sparkling carousel
horse, or emerging from my giant gold powder compact, I live out my
most glamorous fantasies by bringing nostalgic imagery to life. Let
me show you my world of gorgeous pin-ups, tantalizing stripteases,
and femmes fatales. I'll give you a glimpse into my life, but a
lady never reveals all. Fetish and the Art of the Teese You may
have come for the fetish. Or you may just be sneaking a peek at
this mysterious and peculiar other side. No matter what you've come
for, there is something for you to indulge in. My world of fetish
may not be the one that you would expect. As a burlesque performer,
I entice my audience, bringing their minds closer and closer to sex
and then -- as good temptress must -- snatching it away. As a
fetish star, I apply the same techniques...An opera-length kid
leather glove, a strict wasp waist, an impossibly high patent
leather heel, a severely painted red lip...Come with me into my
world of decadent fetishism.
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