1000 erotic works of genius / [authors: Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Joe A. Thomas, and Victoria Charles ; translation: Sofya Hundt, Nick Cowling and Marie-Noëlle Dumaz].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Döpp, Hans-Jürgen, 1940-

Contributor:

Charles, Victoria.

Thomas, Joe Alan, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic art--Exhibitions.

Erotic art.

Erotic art--History.

Sex in art--Exhibitions.

Sex in art.

History.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

543 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

One thousand works of genius

Thousand works of genius

Place of Publication:

New York : Parkstone Press International, [2008]

Summary:

This collection offers a wide range of works from the Antiquity to the twentieth century. This title will deal specifically with erotic pieces. Here are the most sensual and provocative masterworks which captured the feeling of an era and those that signalled the beginning of a new one. Most of these works were not immediately recognized for their genius, and others that were at first met with great resistance. All have stood the test of time and in their own ways contribute to the dialectic on what makes a painting, sculpture or object erotic, how notions of eroticism have changed, to what degree erotic art reflects reality, and to what degree it alters it. Taken together these works illuminate the changing preoccupations and insights of our ancestors and this work enables the reader to rediscover the world heritage of erotic art.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781844844623

1844844625

OCLC:

166368232