Main entry:

Purvis, Matthew, author

Title & Author:

The pornographic delicatessen : midcentury Montréal’s erotic art, media, and spaces / Matthew Purvis.

Edition:

First English edition.

Publication:

Montreal : Concordia University Press, 2025.

Description:

xv, 407 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eros, Automatism, and Black Humour -- New People: Post-Automatist Primitivism, Dance, and Architecture -- Montréal as Medium -- A Pornographic Delicatessen: The Logic of Montréal’s Erotic Press -- Remediation, Erotic Artists’ Books, and the Work of Serge Lemonde -- Figuration in Four Artists After Pop, Figuration Narrative, and Nouveau Réalisme -- The Kétaine and Erotic Sarcasm: On the Sacred Logic of Ti-pop -- Sacred Monsters and Media Black Comedy: Tabloid Sex Symbols and the Surrealism of the October Crisis -- The Stakes of Eroticism in Nationalism and Women’s Art.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"Following the Second World War, Montréal earned a reputation as a North American hotbed of eroticism due to its Red Light District, nightclub scene, and pornography industry. Although this erotic environment had a significant presence in the art and media of the period, the topic has been neglected by scholars. The Pornographic Delicatessen: Mid-century Montréal’s Erotic Art, Media, and Spaces offers an important examination of the development of erotic art and design in the city’s postwar and Quiet Revolution era. Matthew Purvis surveys a range of erotic materials to rediscover nearly forgotten artworks in a period that expanded definitions of what could be considered art. He stresses the confluence of visual art and film, magazines, and journalism during the period, as formal models passed from surrealism and automatism into the evolution of a Quebec-specific variation of pop art, ti-pop. A deeply researched work, The Pornographic Delicatessen shows how eroticism was central to marginal art as well as how aspects of it were adapted and assimilated into the expanding field of institutionalized art being constructed through state intervention."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1988111595
9781988111599 (softcover)

Subject:

Erotic art Québec (Province) Montréal History 20th century.
Art, Canadian Québec (Province) Montréal 20th century.
Sex in mass media.
Art érotique Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 20e siècle.
Sexualité dans les médias.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322979
Call No.: 322979
Copy: 1
Status: Available