Love and the Erotic in Art

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.

Secrets of Love

Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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.

Erotic Art of the East

Author: Philip Rawson
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN: 9780297175049
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Art of the Erotic

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.

Socrates' Daimonic Art

Author: Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107378230
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
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.

Ars Erotica

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780297822981
Category : Erotic art
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Indian Erotic Art

Author: Alka Pande
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788174361899
Category : Erotic art
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Art Nouveau and the Erotic

Author: Ghislaine Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
This provocative book shows how Art Nouveau artists & designers explored & exploited the idea of the erotic in their creative endeavors.

Secrets of Love

Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 9780062513625
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192

The Future of Erotic Fantasy Art

Author: Paul Peart-Smith
Publisher: Harper Design
ISBN: 9780062082862
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.