Posing Sex by Singer & Prof Alan Temple University & USA

• Title: Posing Sex by Singer & Prof Alan Temple University & USA
• Author: Singer & Prof Alan Temple University & USA
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Art treatments & subjects
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions (approx. mm): 151 x 228 x 15

Product Description

Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Artviews 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 m�tier 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.