questions

The first attachment:

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 nude?