Art, Pornography & Censorship
Issue 18:3 | September 1998
Guest editor: Dr Robert Crocker. The conflicts created by centuries of suppression and the demonisation of sex and sensuality are a heavy burden for all of us in the West, whatever our views on pornography or censorship. Explores the 'sex effect' in contemporary art. Is the freedom of the art world under threat from creeping conservatism? The laws of censorship and self-censorship, court cases, community standards and 'family values', photography the Warhol time capsules, feminist positions.
In this issue
Visual Culture, Pornography and Censorship
The Prying Game
In the Middle of it All - A Personal Text
Censor and be Damned
Dying Frightened: Gasps of Old Men in Suits
Porn Again
Andy's Idol
In a Barbie World
Some Notes on Pornography, Contemporary Art and Social Politics
Subject Declined: Swap Mail with Francesca Da Rimini
Lollies and Legends
Masculinity Below the Surface: Pornography and Suppression in Images of Broken Hill Miners
Fetish: So what's your Fetish?
Crossing the Fine Line: The Case of Concetta Petrillo
Garden of Earthly Delights: Erotica at Carrick Hill
The Spectre of Pedophilia and Dennis Del Favero's Parting Embrace
Political Pop-porn in Hong Kong
An Accelerated Life: Lydia Lunch
The Museum, the Muslim and the Infidel: K L Revisited
8 X Tables by Steve Tepper
Sustained Contemplative Images: Atlas Exhibition Cathy Blanchflower
The Promise of Fruit: Kirsty Darlaston, Brenda Goggs, Lucia Pichler, Karen Russell
Black Humour
Cosie: She Decorated a House and Called it a Home
The Painted Coast: Views of the Fleurieu Peninsula Coast of South Australia.
Ecologies of Place and Memory and Time and Tide
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