Le «naked» comme image de l’obscénité : la porno-photo-graphie dans le champ des arts plastiques

«“Naked” as an image of obscenity : the pomo-photo-graphy in the Visual Arts » Pornography which is a phenomenon bom of an era of mass-produced images, seems to be include in the Visual Arts. Among others, artists like Koons, Fleischer and Mapplethorpe use it as it is usually, keeping the photographic images. Each one, with his original thinking which brings art and life together, shows how very small the difference existing is between erotic art, which tends to transcend obscenity, and popular pornography. What is the real difference between the two : the fluctuating interpretation of the public, a prey to its own prohibitions and, or, the technique of the representation of reality ? Does the proliferation of pornographic images reveal an increase in perverse attitude or does it result from contemporary behaviour based on excessive individualism, exagerated narcissism, the vaning of the reality of the Other through media pressure ?