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| erotic art in history: Ars Erotica Edward Lucie-Smith, 1997 |
| erotic art in history: Eroticism and Art Alyce Mahon, 2007 Art? Erotica? Or Pornography? Discussions of what actually constitutes erotic art are incredibly complex and usually highly controversial. The naked body in art has been with us since the earliest examples of Greek art and sculpture. The creation and display of such works of art has always inflamed opinion and today, even withour supposed relaxation of the codes of behaviour surrounding nudity, such images are considered provocative, dangerous, and are often unwelcome in the public sphere.Now - focusing on the last 150 years of western art, these debates are finally explored in an imaginative and engaging way using the latest research and analysis into this and related subject areas - by a woman. |
| erotic art in history: Primitive Erotic Art Philip Rawson, 1973 |
| erotic art in history: Erotic Art of the West Robert Melville, 1973 |
| erotic art in history: Erotic Art Cassidy Hughes, 2014-11-24 EROTIC ART The wonderful world of the whole history of erotic art from prehistory to the present day is explored in this comprehensive, detailed and fully illustrated survey. The major erotic artists of the Western tradition are featured: Egon Schiele, Thomas Rowlandson, Pablo Picasso, Titian, Jean Baptiste Dominique Ingres, Felicien Rops, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Pierre Renoir, Amedeo Modigliani, Pierre Louys, Gustave Courbet, J.M.W. Turner, Edgar Degas, Michelangelo de Caravaggio, the Surrealists, Gustav Klimt, Gustave Moreau, Constantin Brancusi, and Eric Gill. Sections include: the female nude male nudes erotica in ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt Oriental erotic art (Taoist, Tantric art from China, Japan and India, including many famous erotic woodcuts) statuary and sculpture; prehistoric artefacts (including Goddess art) sexuality in art of the 18th and 19th centuries photography and eroticism. 'Erotic Art' also includes discussions of topics such as art and pornography (illustrated with numerous examples) censorship sex and religion sexuality and Christianity pagan and mythological erotic art phallic art lesbian art orgasm voyeurism artists and models. Fully illustrated. This book contains many illustrations which are rare. And an introduction and bibliography. ISBN 9781861712479. 612 pages. www.crmoon.com |
| erotic art in history: The Art of the Erotic Phaidon Editors, 2017-10-02 Carefully curated and beautifully packaged erotic art through the ages – 200 works from the world's most important artists. This carefully curated and beautifully packaged book spotlights nearly 200 works from the world's most important artists, including Titian, Paul Cézanne, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Cecily Brown, Anselm Kiefer, George Condo, and Anish Kapoor. With its chronological organization, The Art of the Erotic provides insights into human sexuality throughout the ages. |
| erotic art in history: Ars Erotica Edward Lucie-Smith, 1997 The social course of sexuality is revealed in the erotic poetry and prose of writers from ancient times through the present, including John Donne, Pablo Neruda, the Marquis de Sade, e.e. cummings, and many anonymous writers. |
| erotic art in history: Love and the Erotic in Art Stefano Zuffi, 2010 This volume is a romp through the portrayal of love and sexuality in art. The book surveys Western artworks illustrating more or less explicitly delicate or amorous subjects. |
| erotic art in history: Erotic Art of the East Philip S. Rawson, 1968 |
| erotic art in history: 30 Millennia of Erotic Art Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Joe A. Thomas, Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl, 2016-12-02 |
| erotic art in history: Sex in Art Cassidy Hughes, 2017-11-10 SEX IN ART: PORNOGRAPHY AND PLEASURE IN THE HISTORY OF ART By Cassidy Hughes A comprehensive and detailed survey of erotic art from ancient times to the modern era. All of the major erotic artists of the Western tradition are analyzed (Egon Schiele, Hans Bellmer, Thomas Rowlandson, Pablo Picasso, Titian, Jean Baptiste Dominique Ingres, Felicien Rops, Leonardo da Vinci, Edgar Degas, and Eric Gill). Other chapters include erotica in ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, Oriental erotic art (Taoist and Tantric art from China, Japan and India), gender and eroticism in Renaissance art, and the sensuality of sculpture. Each chapter contains illustrations. A discussion of the complex relationship between art and pornography provides the central critical axis for this challenging book. Each of the major views on erotica and porn are examined, from each political persuasion and argument. There are also chapters on censorship, on feminism, and the relation of erotic art to erotic literature. There are individual sections on many of the key erotic artists, such as Michelangelo Buonaroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Eric Gill, Gustave Moreau, the Surrealists, Jasper Johns, Constantin Brancusi, Egon Schiele, and Gustav Klimt. Fully illustrated. This new edition contains many new illustrations (some of which are rare), an updated and revised text, a new introduction and bibliography. 464 pages. www.crmoon.com |
| erotic art in history: How to Read Erotic Art Flavio Febbraro, Alexandra Wetzel, 2011-11-01 How to Read Erotic Art explores the history of erotic art and presents paintings, drawings, etchings, sculptures, and more by Titian, Picasso, and Andy Warhol, by Bernini, Rodin, and Bruce Nauman, and from ancient Greece and Rome, China, Japan, India, and the Middle East. Reproduced in lush color with close-up details, the art is accompanied by texts that offer insights into how to read the different works--P. [4] of cover. |
| erotic art in history: Erotic Art in the 19th Century Cassidy Hughes, 2021-10-25 The history of erotic art in the 19th century is explored in this detailed and fully illustrated survey. |
| erotic art in history: Icons of Erotic Art Pippa Hurd, 2004 This intimate collection of two millennia of erotic art takes a fresh look at the genre, offering provocative insights into what distinguishes the merely titillating from the masterful. |
| erotic art in history: Erotic Art Peter Weiermair, 1999 Previously accessible to only a select few, these erotic watercolor drawings and prints from the famous Dopp Collection show the best of the genre from the 17th to the 20th centuries. 265 color illustrations. |
| erotic art in history: Dreams of Spring Yimen, Bertholet Collection, 1997 At its best, Chinese erotic art is a search for beauty in all its manifestations, for not only does it offer stimulation, it provides a source of great aesthetic pleasure. It never presents sex in a crude or pornographical way, but within a framework of beauty and harmony, enhanced with details of a profound or symbolic nature. Dreams of Spring presents for the first time the treasures of the Bertholet Collection, one of the world's most important surviving collections of Chinese erotic art. Many of the pictures reproduced are unique in their style and content, and have never been published before.--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| erotic art in history: The Art of Arousal Ruth K. Westheimer, 2000 The Art of Arousal brings together 120 of the most engagingly erotic paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings from diverse eras and cultures. |
| erotic art in history: Sex in Art Cassidy Hughes, 2004 SEX IN ART: POROGRAPHY AND PLEASURE IN THE HISTORY OF ART A comprehensive and detailed survey of erotic art from ancient times to the modern era. All of the major erotic artists of the Western tradition are analyzed (Egon Schiele, Hans Bellmer, Thomas Rowlandson, Pablo Picasso, Titian, Jean Baptiste Dominique Ingres, Felicien Rops, Leonardo da Vinci, Edgar Degas, and Eric Gill). Other chapters include erotica in ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, Oriental erotic art (Taoist and Tantric art from China, Japan and India), gender and eroticism in Renaissance art, and the sensuality of sculpture. Each chapter contains illustrations. A discussion of the complex relationship between art and pornography provides the central critical axis for this challenging book. Each of the major views on erotica and porn are examined, from each political persuasion and argument. There are also chapters on censorship, on feminism, and the relation of erotic art to erotic literature. There are individual sections on many of the key erotic artists, such as Michelangelo Buonaroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Eric Gill, Gustave Moreau, the Surrealists, Jasper Johns, Constantin Brancusi, Egon Schiele, and Gustav Klimt. Fully illustrated. This new edition contains many new illustrations (some of which are rare), an updated and revised text, a new introduction and bibliography. ISBN 9781861713933. 464 pages. www.crmoon.com |
| erotic art in history: Erotique Michelle Olley, 2011-07 This high-quality publication showcases the finest examples of modern erotic art--from Picasso's explicit sexual sketches to the 1960's pop-art stylings of Allen Jones to cutting-edge new media work. With generous samplings of erotic illustrations, pin-ups, surreal and comic art from the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as provocative peeks into painting, sculpture, and graphic design, Erotique is a testament to human sexuality and creativity. |
| erotic art in history: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction Roger Scruton, 2011-03-24 In a book that is itself beautifully written, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful.--From publisher description. |
| erotic art in history: Old Erotic Art Vol.2 Tony G Editions, 2020-07-29 This is the second volume of Old Erotic Art, with illustrations produced for specific projects by renowned artists from19th century and first half of the 20th century.Artists such as John Buckland, Carlo, Jean Dulac, Clara Tice... llustrators of erotic novels such as Heart's Desire, Mademoiselle de Maupin, The Adventures of King Pausole, Aphrodite, The Dominatrix, In the Time of the Judges, Giacomo Casanova... |
| erotic art in history: Irish Erotic Art Seamus O'Gallagher McGuire Cork, 1981-02-15 This humorous take on Irish erotic art is a book of completely blank pages. The spine and cover are also blank. |
| erotic art in history: Eros in Pompeii Michael Grant, 1982 |
| erotic art in history: Eros: 90 Masterpieces Jessica Findley, 2014-12-19 The series Erotic Art is some kind of History of Art of Pleasure: an erotic history of human race. These books outline the hidden history of erotic art from Egypt's Golden Empire to present day, translating our sexual fantasies into master works of art.Eros, the God of Love, is considered a principle of Creation: sprung from the original Chaos, he is vital element of the world. Defining erotic art is difficult since perceptions of both what is erotic and what is art vary. The distinction between erotic art and pornography may lie in intent and message; erotic art would be items intended only as pieces of art; Pornography may also use art tools, but is mainly intended to arouse one sexually. This Art Book with Foreword and annotated reproductions by Jessica Findley contains 90 selected drawings and paintings of Katsushika Hokusai Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Francois Boucher, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Leon Bonnat, Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Eugene Ferdinand Victor Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edward Burne-Jones, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Francesco Paolo Hayez, John William Godward, Auguste Rodin and Egon Schiele. |
| erotic art in history: Male Desire Jonathan Weinberg, 2004 Examining the history of homoeroticism in American art, Male Desire surveys how the male body has been portrayed for the last century and a half. 220 illustrations, 128 in full color. |
| erotic art in history: Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art Francesca Leoni, Mika Natif, 2013 Dedicated to the topic of eroticism and sexuality in the visual production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world, this volume offers new insights and methodological models that extend our understanding of erotic and sexual subjects in the Islamic tradition. The essays shed light on the diverse socio-cultural milieus of erotic images, on the motivations underlying their production, and on the responses generated by their circulation. |
| erotic art in history: Ars Erotica Richard Shusterman, 2021-03-25 Drawing on theories of lovemaking from ancient Asian and Western cultures, this book provides a new aesthetics of erotic love. |
| erotic art in history: Radical Eroticism Rachel Middleman, 2018-01-16 In the 1960s, the fascination with erotic art generated a wave of exhibitions and critical discussion on sexual freedom, visual pleasure, and the nude in contemporary art. Radical Eroticism examines the importance of women’s contributions in fundamentally reconfiguring representations of sexuality across several areas of advanced art—performance, pop, postminimalism, and beyond. This study shows that erotic art made by women was integral to the profound changes that took place in American art during the sixties, from the crumbling of modernist aesthetics and the expanding field of art practice to the emergence of the feminist art movement. Artists Carolee Schneemann, Martha Edelheit, Marjorie Strider, Hannah Wilke, and Anita Steckel created works that exemplify these innovative approaches to the erotic, exploring female sexual subjectivities and destabilizing assumptions about gender. Rachel Middleman reveals these artists’ radical interventions in both aesthetic conventions and social norms. |
| erotic art in history: Art and Pornography Hans Maes, Jerrold Levinson, 2015-07-02 Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? If they are not, how might we characterize pornographic art or artistic pornography, and how might pornographic art be distinguished, if at all, from erotic art? Can there be aesthetic experience of pornography? What are some of the psychological, social, and political consequences of the creation and appreciation of erotic art or artistic pornography? Leading scholars from around the world address these questions, and more, and bring together different aesthetic perspectives and approaches to this widely consumed, increasingly visible, yet aesthetically underexplored cultural domain. The book, the first of its kind in philosophical aesthetics, will contribute to a more accurate and subtle understanding of the many representations that incorporate explicit sexual imagery and themes, in both high art and demotic culture, in Western and non-Western contexts. It is sure to stir debate, and healthy controversy. |
| erotic art in history: Foucault and the Kamasutra Sanjay K. Gautam, 2016-06-22 Gautam has here laid out the first serious reading of Michel Foucault in relation to key Sanskrit texts, and--what may be a surprise to many--he has written the first book-length work in English on the nature and origin of the Kamasutra. Gautam also takes up the Natyasastra (the Kamasutra's twin), locating in the first the themes of sexual-erotic pleasure, and locating in the second the classical Indian view of theater, music, dance, and aesthetic pleasure. The book shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in ancient Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics. Foucault provides a framework for opening up the intellectual horizon of Indian thought; it is his distinction between ars erotics (erotic arts) and scientia sexualis (science of sexuality) that fuels Gautam's exploration of the courtesan as symbol of both erotic and aesthetic pleasure, particularly in her role as a wife to her patron, which entails the morphing of erotics into a form of theater. The scope broadens ambitiously, to an inquiry on the nature of knowledge formation, erotics, theater, and gender relations in premodern Indian society and culture--as they converged on the historical figures of the courtesan and her male counterpart, the dandy. Gautam's twining of aims and subjects--Foucault's western philosophy of pleasure and India's classic text on eros (anchored in art and aesthetics)--transforms both the modern and the ancient texts with new understandings, and as new forms of investigating erotics and subjectivity itself. |
| erotic art in history: Art/Porn Kelly Dennis, 2009-03 Art/Porn argues the distinctions between erotica and pornography are based on an age-old antithesis between sigh and touch, an antithesis created and maintained for centuries by art criticism. It reveals how the world of art and pornography are much closer than we think.--Back cover. |
| erotic art in history: Erotic Art in the 19th Century Cassidy Hughes, 2015-10-26 EROTIC ART IN THE 19TH CENTURY by Cassidy Hughes The history of erotic art in the 19th century is explored in this detailed and fully illustrated survey. The major erotic artists of the nineteenth century are featured: Thomas Rowlandson, Jean Baptiste Dominique Ingres, Felicien Rops, Pierre Renoir, Gustave Courbet, J.M.W. Turner, Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, Gustave Moreau, Aubrey Beardsley and William Bouguereau. Also, many anonymous artists of prints, paintings and photographs. 'Erotic Art In the 19th Century' also includes discussions of topics related to erotic art, such as art and pornography (illustrated with numerous examples) the female nude the male nude censorship photography and eroticism sex and religion sexuality and Christianity pagan and mythological erotic art phallic art lesbian art orgasm voyeurism artists and models. The first part of this book on 19th century erotic art uses short entries about aspects of erotic art (with examples from the whole history of erotic art). The bulk of the second part of the book focusses on the celebrated artists of the 19th century whose work is considered erotic, as well as many anonymous works. The appendices feature 50 pages with many more classics of erotic art of the 19th century. Fully illustrated. This book contains many illustrations which are rare. And an introduction and bibliography. ISBN 9781861715135. 316 pages. Paperback www.crmoon.com |
| erotic art in history: The Renaissance Nude Thomas Kren, Jill Burke, Stephen J. Campbell, 2018-11-20 A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human. |
| erotic art in history: The Enema as an Erotic Art and Its History David Barton-Jay, 1982-01-01 |
| erotic art in history: Japanese Erotic Art Ofer Shagan, 2013 The definitive book on Japanese erotic art or shunga |
| erotic art in history: Private Collection Danny Moynihan, Jason Beard, 2008-05-01 Private Collection is a unique and fascinating publication of over 250 pornographic photographs from Danny Moynihan’s personal collection, including images made by some of the earliest erotic photographers, right up to the 1940s. This publication visually documents attitudes about sex and pornography, and by so doing shows how they were developed alongside a 'correct’ social and cultural behavioural code of restraint, particularly with regard to sexual intercourse and role-play. By providing a historical overview of nudity and sex in photography, the book offers an intriguing insight into the way pornography was made alongside the development of photography. Private Collection includes an extremely readable and informative essay by Cressida Connolly which discusses pornography from an historical perspective, the way the sex industry was used in the 19th century, and how this affected the production, function and availability of pornography: There were no rules. It is the revolutionary newness of these images which makes them as exciting as their subjects.” |
| erotic art in history: Erotic Islands Lyndon K. Gill, 2018-06-07 In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre Lorde's use of the erotic as theory and methodology. Gill turns to lesbian/gay artistry and activism to insist on eros as an intertwined political-sensual-spiritual lens through which to see self and society more clearly. This analysis juxtaposes revered musician Calypso Rose, renowned mas man Peter Minshall, and resilient HIV/AIDS organization Friends For Life. Erotic Islands traverses black studies, queer studies, and anthropology toward an emergent black queer diaspora studies. |
| erotic art in history: Eros Visible James Turner, 2017 Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible presents a compendious, revisionist account of High Renaissance art. Through close visual analysis of artworks and careful reading of related texts, James Grantham Turner demonstrates the surprisingly close connection between explicitly pornographic art and the canonical works of masters such as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Full of new discoveries, this volume explores the passionate response to antiquity and how a new sex-positive philosophy not only encouraged an increased accentuation of sensual and erotic themes in art, but influenced the sexual cultures of both the court and the art studio. With an interdisciplinary approach that draws on a wide array of visual and textual erotica, Turner offers the first broad, synthetic history of the classically inspired and unambiguously lascivious sensibilities behind some of the most sublime artistic achievements of the Renaissance. |
| erotic art in history: EROTIC ART. DANIEL. KIECOL, 2020 |
| erotic art in history: Taking Positions Bette Talvacchia, 1999 The book is generously illustrated and includes full translations of the infamous sonnets that Pietro Aretino wrote to accompany I modi. Exploring such issues as censorship, religious teachings about sex, and the influence of antique culture, Taking Positions is a major contribution to our understanding of the erotic in Renaissance culture.--BOOK JACKET. |
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