{"product_id":"the-pornographic-delicatessen","title":"The Pornographic Delicatessen","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Second World War, Montreal 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Pornographic Delicatessen: Mid-century Montreal’s Erotic Art Media and Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e offers an important examination of the development of erotic art and design in the city’s postwar and Quiet Revolution-era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA deeply researched work, \u003cem\u003eThe Pornographic Delicatessen\u003c\/em\u003e shows how eroticism was central to marginal art as well as how aspects were adapted and assimilated into the expanding field of institutionalized art being constructed through state intervention.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Purvis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55207067550076,"sku":"9781988111599","price":47.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781988111599.jpg?v=1746795848","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pornographic-delicatessen","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}