part 5: Pornography and/as Avant-Garde: Andy Warhol's Blow Job: Toward the Recognition of a Pornographic Avant-garde.
In: Porn Studies; 2004, p431-460, 31p, 3 Black and White Photographs; (2004) S. 431-461
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Zugriff:
This section analyzes the 1963 film Blow Job directed by Andy Warhol in relation to the multiple historical and aesthetic factors that influence the film's erotic charge. The film emerges from a historical moment ripe with formal transgression and sexual transgressors; the postwar American avant-garde was replete with films that engaged the viewer both corporeally and cognitively. Blow Job inaugurated the era of structural film with an explicit gesture toward the sex act. Warhol addresses the notion of the limit itself as the generative mechanism of pleasure, a nuance lost in the intervening years with the insistence on maximum visibility in hard-core porn. In the film, the expressions signifying boredom, pleasure and pain are situated in an illegible visual lexicon where meaning has become inaccessible. The arrival of pleasure is indistinguishable from the trace of pain.
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part 5: Pornography and/as Avant-Garde: Andy Warhol's Blow Job: Toward the Recognition of a Pornographic Avant-garde.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Osterweil, Ara ; Williams, Linda |
Quelle: | Porn Studies; 2004, p431-460, 31p, 3 Black and White Photographs; (2004) S. 431-461 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2004 |
Medientyp: | Buch |
ISBN: | 978-0-8223-3312-8 (print) |
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