Author: Stefano Zuffi Publisher: Getty Publications ISBN: 1606060090 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
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.
Author: Flavio Febbraro Publisher: ISBN: 9789461300126 Category : Erotic art Languages : en Pages : 390
Book Description
How to Read Erotic Art explores the history of erotic art and presents paintings, drawings, etchings, sculptures and more from all over the world and from throughout history.Works by Titian, Picasso and Keith Haring are included, along with prints from China, Japan, India and the Middle East. Eroticism is a truly universal topic, a subject that has always fascinated mankind, but the tone of the nude has shifted throughout history: Egon Schieles nudes differ greatly from those of ancient Rome. Erotic art is telling: it reveals much about an era, a culture, a psychology; it can be sweet, aggressive, soothing, kind, wild or mad. All of these varieties are here, in lush colour with details, and texts that offer insights into how to read the different works. In this book, erotic art gives up its secrets.
Author: Phaidon Editors Publisher: Phaidon Press ISBN: 9780714874241 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Author: Elizabeth S. Belfiore Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107378230 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages :
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Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in which the philosopher searches for wisdom together with his young interlocutors, using an art that is 'erotic', not in a narrowly sexual sense, but because it shares characteristics attributed to the daimon Eros in Symposium. In all four dialogues, Socrates' art enables him, like Eros, to search for the beauty and wisdom he recognizes that he lacks and to help others seek these same objects of erôs. Belfiore examines the dialogues as both philosophical and dramatic works, and considers many connections with Greek culture, including poetry and theater.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 1588393003 Category : Art del Renaixement Languages : en Pages : 394
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"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Rebekah Compton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108916058 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 637
Book Description
In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes – her golden splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and gifts from the sea. By examining these attributes in the context of the visual arts, Compton uncovers an array of materials and techniques employed by artists, patrons, rulers, and lovers to manifest Venusian virtues. Her book explores technical art history in the context of love's protean iconography, showing how different discourses and disciplines can interact in the creation and reception of art. Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence offers new insights on sight, seduction, and desire, as well as concepts of gender, sexuality, and viewership from both male and female perspectives in the early modern era.
Author: Nigel Cawthorne Publisher: Harper San Francisco ISBN: 9780062513625 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
Boudoir-hopping through the centuries, author/journalist Nigel Cawthorne extends the legacy of the ancient sexual arts to a new generation with this stimulating and instructive compendium of erotic art and literature. 180 full-color illus. 20 b&w illus.
Author: Paul Peart-Smith Publisher: Harper Design ISBN: 9780062082862 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Future of Erotic Fantasy Art, sequel to the strong-selling Erotic Fantasy Art (Collins Design, 2008) gathers the finest, freshest, and most exciting talents in the world of erotic fantasy illustration. Artists from around the world-from China and Singapore to the United States and Europe-are represented in this volume, which focuses on the latest and most imaginative work being produced today. The work covers art across various media, from graphic novels to book covers to trading card sets to computer games. In this book you will find succubi, mermaids, and vampires, creatures of pure sexual desire-symbols of lust given form and purpose. Much of the work is made digitally, all of it is inspired by artists who successfully capture the excitement and danger of arousal.
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