With over a hundred illustrations, including sixty-five in full color, here is a stimulating history of eroticism in modern Western art. Mahon takes us on an engaging tour of erotic art in all its forms, including painting, sculpture, video art, installation, performance art, and photography. Ranging from its most romantic to its most explicit, the book examines the role of erotic art in some of the key movements in modern art history: from the birth of Realism with Courbet in Paris, to the Surrealist subversion of taboo, ...
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With over a hundred illustrations, including sixty-five in full color, here is a stimulating history of eroticism in modern Western art. Mahon takes us on an engaging tour of erotic art in all its forms, including painting, sculpture, video art, installation, performance art, and photography. Ranging from its most romantic to its most explicit, the book examines the role of erotic art in some of the key movements in modern art history: from the birth of Realism with Courbet in Paris, to the Surrealist subversion of taboo, to Nazi propaganda's use of the heroic nude, to the soft-porn of Pop art, to the vogue for carnality in contemporary art.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Erotica. 8vo. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 334 pages. With over 130 illustrations of which over 100 are in color, with 28 full page plates. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. White spine/Red text. #031109.