Miasmic guitar drones underpin the sensual pursuit of "The Beast", while keening siren harmonies attend the emotional disrobings of "Sophia" and "Rest In The Bed".
Many reasons I guess, but it suggests to me that these pieces, for the artist, were more of a material challenge than a sensual pursuit.
In particular, he worries that opponents will assume that utilitarianism favors sensual or voluptuary pursuits (e.g., push-pin) over higher or nobler pursuits (e.g., poetry).
Screens intended for formal or official settings might use images to project moral or political messages, while others designed for domestic quarters might carry scenes of leisurely pursuits and sensual pleasure.
More radically, he advocated the pursuit of sensual pleasure.
Some contended that it sprang from hedonism, the pursuit of sensual pleasure.
His poetry is passionate and eloquent, defending sensual pleasure and the pursuit of glory as the only proper goals of life.
Toby Litt notes that its protagonist, Des Esseintes, a man whose life is given over entirely to the pursuit of sensual pleasures, is "more likely to attract one when one is an adolescent"; certainly as a teenager I found it hard not to love decadent literature, with its emphasis on artifice, deliberate perverseness, art-for-art's sake, sensuality and degeneration.
However, over the years I have gained a tremendous amount of respect for Madison's fearless pursuit of her sensual pleasures.
I argue that the pursuit of pleasure the practice of seeking sensual, instrumental, contemplative and social pleasures tempered by the pursuit of comfort, is a significant form of aesthetic justification; and that living within one's means, keeping a balance between expenditure and income, is the primary moral justification.
