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Illustration & Art
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| You are invited to enter the fantasy world of a "forbidden art," erotica, and to explore its many wonders. Over 500 color photographs of erotic artworks and artifacts are shown here, and most of them have not been published or exhibited previously. As you turn the pages, unforgettable images of love, passion, and sensuality unfold. Feast your eyes and mind upon sexual delights as you traipse randomly, back and forth, through many centuries, countries, cultures, artists, and mediums. The originality and imagination of the artists may expand, ignite, and incite your thoughts and senses. The author is a serious collector of art works and erotica, living in Florida. |
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Original Paintings
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South Africa-born artist, Susan Hippe currently lives and works in London. Susan graduated in Fine Art, from Roehampton Institute of the University of Surrey. She has also undertaken various courses at universities in London and France. | | |
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History & Culture
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| The theme of this collection of photographs by a wide variety of leading Soviet camera artists is the depiction of the female body. The compilation makes it possible to trace the evolution of approa ches to the female body in Soviet photography of the Stalin period, from the so-called nude mode of the 1920s to the official shots of Soviet. |
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Original Paintings
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Established Vietnamese artist, Van Duong Thanh´s paintings have an expressive semi-abstract style.
She studied painting for twelve years during the difficult times of war where she often was evacuated to the countryside, either hiding in tunnels or finding shelter with the peasants of the area. It was during these years that she developed a tremendous empathy for the rural way of life and the country's traditions.
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Photography
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Established Italian photographer Plinio Martelli´s transgressive works are in part visual parodies of classic religious and secular compositions of baroque paintings. The contrast between the light that falls upon his subjects and the dark backgrounds against which they are set brings to mind the chiaroscuro technique employed by the Italian master artists of the 17th century. | |
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Literature & Fiction
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If Cabaret's twisted emcee had earned a degree in sociology, he might very well have turned out a book like Simon Sheppard's brilliantly conceived and executed Kinkorama. A noted erotic writer, Sheppard reveals the sometimes shocking, often hilarious, relentlessly arousing scenarios of extreme sex. |
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History & Culture
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This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism.
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History & Culture
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Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imperial Roman constructions of desire that emerge from Ovid's text.
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Original Paintings
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This emerging Thai painter is a versatile artist, emphasizing buddhist, figurative and political themes, in his work. | |
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Original Paintings
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An up-and-coming female artist from Thailand, Nitaya´s exceptional work focuses on minds and bodies of women. | |
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Literature & Fiction
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In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, Whitman was trying to temper his own inner conflicts as well.
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History & Culture
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Eros presents full-color images of the god of love — often known as Cupid — in paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and the graphic arts from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Accompanying these images are excerpts from the literature of classical antiquity, as well as love poems by some of the world's greatest poets. | |
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