Pornography

Pornography
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Pornography and Erotica:
The representation of erotic behaviour in books, pictures, statues, motion pictures, etc., that is intended to cause sexual excitement.

pornography - Pictures, textures, or other material that is sexually explicit, typically equating sex with power and violence.

Anti-pornography movement
Anti-pornography feminists, such as Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Robin Morgan and Dorchen Leidholdt, put pornography at the center of a feminist explanation of women's oppression.

He seems to have made part of his income by supplying collectors of pornography, who abounded in Vienna at that time. Schiele was also fascinated by his own appearance, and made self-portraits in large numbers.

Mediocrity in any form can be ugly, but so can pornography, vandalism, and the results of other unappealing or criminal behaviors; just as poor qualitiy painting, sculpture, architecture, fashion and other products of art and design can be ugly.

[7] However, because eroticism is wholly dependent on the viewer's culture and personal tastes pertaining to what, exactly, defines the erotic,[8][9] critics have often confused eroticism with pornography, ...

The later postmodern artists of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s took these ideas further by expanding this technique of self-criticism beyond high art to all cultural image-making, including fashion images, comics, billboards and pornography.

Mann's photographs of her children posed nude or semi-nude has created controversy about whether they are pictures of childhood innocence or child pornography.
Robert Mapplethorpe, Ken Moody and Robert Sherman 1984 ...

See also: Painting, Movement, Expression, Sculpture, Aesthetic