The erotic anatomies of Charles Estienne and Annie Sprinkle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13086267 |
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| Authors | Meghan Chandler (University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 391-401 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Porn Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23268743.2014.958385 |
| OpenAlex | W1979997323 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper explores the intersections between medical and pornographic visuality as they appear in the works of two trans-historical, innovative visual practitioners: sixteenth-century medical illustrator Charles Estienne (1504–1564), and twentieth/twenty-first-century porn star turned performance artist Annie Sprinkle (1954–present). Both Estienne and Sprinkle adopt pornography as a representational strategy for re-imagining and re-presenting bodies that have been penetrated, opened, or altered by medical acts. By combining scientific modes of looking with pornographic imagery, they visualize dissected anatomical figures as sexual collages while questioning whether medicalized bodies remain sexual ones. Ultimately, their erotic anatomies illustrate how pornography can function as a type of visual strategy that allows for new ways to see human bodies and come to terms with medical interventions
Aesthetics · Art · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Visual arts · Visual culture · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Psychology · Sexual function and dysfunction studies · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
| Highly cited | No |
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