Undergraduate thesis summarizes the theories and definitions of still unsolved concepts of "art" and "pornography", tries to join, according to some of the professional opinions, the incompatible, and at the same time delimit these notions by listing the differences between art and pornography. With this intention, thesis researches the tradition of sexuality and sexual depictions in ancient Greece, Rome, China and India, and literary examples from the last two centuries, Henry Miller's Under the Roofs of Paris, Elfriede Jelinek's Lust, Shizo by Franjo Frančič and Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie, wherein still a bit doubtfully relies on the George Dickie's most commonly established institutional theory of art, the definition of pornography by Caroline West, and the definition of erotic art of Hans Maes. It establishes a critical view towards repressive mechanisms of sexuality, and towards pornography, which can serve as a tool for strengthening or obstructing women's emancipation, but ultimately notes that the line between art and pornography is far more blurred than we might imagine.
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