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Art and Obscenity

Art and…

Contemporary art can be difﬁcult. Reading about it doesn’t need to be.

Books in the Art and… series do two things.

Firstly, they connect art back to the real stuff of life – from those

perennial issues like sex and death that trouble generation after

generation to those that concern today’s world: the proliferation

of obscene imagery in the digital age; our daily bombardment by

advertising; dubious and disturbing scientiﬁc advances.

Secondly, Art and… provides accessible theme-based surveys which

energetically explore the best of contemporary art. Art and… avoids

rareﬁed discourse. In its place, it offers intelligent overviews of art -

and the subjects of art - that really matter.

Forthcoming:

Art and Death Chris Townsend

Art and Sex Gray Watson

Art and

Obscenity

Kerstin Mey

Published in 2007 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

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175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010

www.ibtauris.com

In the United States of America and in Canada distributed by

Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St Martin’s Press

175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010

The right of Kerstin Mey to be identiﬁed as the author of this work has been asserted by

may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted,

in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or

otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

PB ISBN 978 1 84511 235 6

HB ISBN 978 1 84511 234 9

A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

Library of Congress catalog card: available

Typeset in Agfa Rotis by Steve Tribe, Andover

Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow

Mey - Art & Obscenity.pdf