{"id":7723,"date":"2021-08-12T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-8\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T16:23:09","slug":"philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-8","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Colin Troesken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Colin Troesken will lead a discussion of Anne Eaton&#8217;s paper\u00a0<i>\u2018A Lady on the Street but a Freak in the Bed\u2019: On the Distinction Between Erotic Art and Pornography\u00a0<\/i>(abstract below).<\/p>\n<p>Please be aware that the paper includes examples of the sorts of erotic art under discussion. As usual, the discussion leader will provide a short summary of the paper and we encourage those who have not had time to read the paper in full to still participate in the discussion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>Title:\u00a0<i>\u2018A Lady on the Street but a Freak in the Bed\u2019: On the Distinction Between Erotic Art and Pornography<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>Abstract:<\/b>\u00a0How, if at all, are we to distinguish between the works that we call \u2018art\u2019 and those that we call \u2018pornography\u2019? This question gets a grip because from classical Greek vases and the frescoes of Pompeii to Renaissance mythological painting and sculpture to Modernist prints, the European artistic tradition is chock-full of art that looks a lot like pornography. In this paper I propose a way of thinking about the distinction that is grounded in art historical considerations regarding the function of erotic images in 16 th -century Italy. This exploration suggests that the root of the erotic art\/pornography distinction was\u2014at least in this context\u2014class: in particular, the need for a special category of unsanctioned illicit images arose at the very time when print culture was beginning to threaten elite privilege. What made an erotic representation exceed the boundaries of acceptability, I suggest, was not its extreme libidinosity but, rather, its widespread availability and, thereby, its threat to one of the mechanisms of sustaining class privilege.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Troesken will lead a discussion of Anne Eaton&#8217;s paper\u00a0\u2018A Lady on the Street but a Freak in the Bed\u2019: On the Distinction Between Erotic Art and Pornography\u00a0(abstract below). Please&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[27],"class_list":["post-7723","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-philosophy-social-theory-arche-seminar","cat_philosophy-social-theory-arche-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8174,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7723\/revisions\/8174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}