1. What is the difference between erotic art and pornography? How does it relate to Scruton’s distinction between imagination and fantasy from last time’s reading?

1. What is the difference between erotic art and pornography? How does it relate to Scruton’s distinction between imagination and fantasy from last time’s reading?

2. Looking at pp. 176-178, what is desecration, and how can certain ways of representing sex and violence be guilty of “the willful desecration of the human form?”

 

The second attachment:

1.Why, according to Danto, are appearances so important to people?

2. In what way can a photograph present a person other than she desires to be presented?

3. What are some reasons people have thought it inappropriate to paint, or photograph, people in the nud