Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - Erotica

Contemporary photography and writings by Nicolo Maestri

New Essays on John Cowper Powys, including a postmodern reading of Powys via G. Wilson Knight, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jean Baudrillard and Gianni Vattimo; Wolf Solent, parody and postmodern fiction; Jacques Derrida and deauthorization in Powys's Autobiography; and Owen Glendower and Walter Scott. Joe Boulter is Senior Scholar at Somerville College, Oxford.

The very title of Edward V. Bonner's first volume of poetry, One Kiss (Ingram, 2015), suggests some ways in which the poems inside balance the universal with the particular. Most of the poems examine the themes of beauty and risk, pleasure and danger, in the context of one of three kinds of relationships: to romantic partners, to the spiritual world, and to the world of nature. But while these concerns are shared by much of humanity, Bonner's poems sound consistently personal. In a few cases-"A City Boy," "Cedar Lane," and "Panther Creek"-this effect is due partly to Bonner's tributes to the...

She was on one last family trip with her two daughters and soon-to-be-ex. He was a married father of two on a business trip. They met at a hotel bar. After a few drinks, an electrified kiss and an email address left hidden near his room later, they were off. To a lifestyle he'd left behind a dozen years ago--and a world that was brand spanking new to her. Along the way, she made discoveries far beyond the pains and pleasures of the flesh. She found herself.

Mustaches and muscles: Back to the days when men were men and sex was carefree In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Tom's Man. He tried out a blond named Vicky--a common male name in Finland--followed by a Tarzan-inspired Jack. Then in 1968 Tom settled on Kake, a dark-haired, mustached leatherman who often wore a tight white T-shirt bearing the motto "Fucker." Kake lived up to this moniker, a sort of post-Stonewall, hyper-masculine Johnny Appleseed traveling the world on his motorcycle tospread the seeds of liberated,...

EROTIC ART IN THE RENAISSANCE by Cassidy Hughes

The history of erotic art in the Renaissance is explored in this detailed and fully illustrated survey.

The major erotic artists of the Renaissance are featured, including: Titian, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Artemisia Gentileschi, Correggio, Diego Velasquez, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio, Giovanni Bernini and Antonio Canova. Also included are the famous prints of Guilio Romano, Agostino Carracci and Friedrich von Waldeck illustrating sex positions. Plus many anonymous artists and works.

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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...

EROTIC ART by Cassidy Hughes

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...

Queen of Your Body Parts is an illustrated reference guide of every emotion you've felt in a consumptive relationship - using only the bodies of nude women. A coffee table book of over 80 original drawings from L.B., this is a playfully presented depiction of young, sexual beings and their self destructive, painfully pleasing exploits.

Through vivid imagery and unapologetic sexuality, Queen of Your Body Parts tells the story of unrequited love, and undeniable passion.

Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus--with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death--is the most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth-eaten velvet cushions--with glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning their real human hair--were created in eighteenth-century Florence as the centerpiece of the first truly public science museum. Conceived as a means to teach human anatomy, the Venus also tacitly communicated the relationship between the human body and a divinely created cosmos; between art and science,...

Bigger is better: Tom of Finland, oversized for maximum pleasure

In 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following in the international gay community but was largely unknown to the broader audience.

In 2009, TASCHEN followed up with the ultimate Tom overview: Tom of Finland XXL, a beautiful big collector s edition with over 1,000 images, covering six...

The Age of Gatsby.. elegant, powerful men... gorgeous, exquisitely-dressed women... mysterious and alluring androgynes... It was a time opulence and excess, of sexual fluidity. Nothing escaped the eye the master illustrator of Art Deco, George Barbier. Natalie Tate has taken 23 of Barbier's amorous illustrations and transformed them into a beautiful coloring book, just waiting for your appreciative eye, and flair for color

Slip into a relaxing reverie of seductive, erotic fantasy. Elegant, irresistible men... beguilingly beautiful maidens... steamy couples in ecstatic states of bliss, set in exotic India, land of the Kama Sutra. In this book you will find 23 exquisitely enticing adult coloring images. They are beautifully drawn from the sexiest masterpieces of Indian erotic art, by the talented Natalie Tate. Finally-a sexy adult coloring book

Plunge into a realm of wild desire, lust and fantasy... Peek behind closed doors into private, hidden gardens and bedchambers to witness the secret goings-on therein...Dames and Demoiselles inciting each other to a peak of excitement, pleasure, and ecstasy... Inside you will find 23 wickedly sensuous scenes of women in the throes of erotic desire. Each is exquisitely drawn by Natalie Tate, and ready for you to apply the rose and lavender...