Agent
Provocateur
by Carlton Books, Joseph Corre
By Joseph Corré and Serena Rees.
Soft and curvaceous, mysterious and provocative, the female form has
an extraordinary power over us--and after centuries of social and political
change, femininity and sexuality can now be flaunted unashamedly. By looking
at evocative representations of women throughout history--corsets, '50s
pin-up gals, striptease, and lingerie--this book describes the changes
in attitude toward the female form. Within are selected works by Eric Stanton,
John Willie, Elmer Batters, Allen Jones, Milo Manara, Irving Klaw, Gil
Elvgren and others as well as images of Bettie Page, Marilyn Monroe, Tempest
Storm and other famous women.
The authors are also founders of London-based Agent Provocateur, a
shop devoted to exquisite, tantalizing and glamorous lingerie. Chapters
include Fashion, Fantasy, Striptease, Sexuality--you get the drift. Nicely
illustrated. Included is a provocative facsimile letter about a 1921 shopping
trip for undies to "drive all the boys wild." More than 200 images.
Review by Bud Plant
Hardcover from Carlton Books
28 October, 2002
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Erotica : An Arousing History of Erotic Art
by Edward Lucie-Smith
Hardcover - 192 pages
Rizzoli Bookstore; ISBN: 084782060
Art
Nouveau and the Erotic
by Ghislaine Wood
(Hardcover)
The swirling sensuous forms of the Art Nouveau style are synonymous
with the erotic. This provocative book, bursting with groundbreaking sensual
images, shows how artists and designers from Aubrey Beardsley to Gustav
Klimt explored and exploited the idea of the erotic in their creative endeavors.
The
Art of Irvin Bomb
by Irvin Bomb, NBM Publishing
Auguste Rodin : Images of Desire : Erotic Watercolors and Cut-Outs
by Anne-Marie Bonnet, Auguste Rodin
Listed under Rodin
Behind
Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer (The Discovery Series)
by Therese Lichtenstein
The life-size, adolescent-girl dolls created by German artist Hans
Bellmer in the 1930s are the subject of Therese Lichtenstein's highly original
book.
The
Complete Reprint of Exotique: The First 36 Issues, 1951-1957 (Special Series)
by Kim Christy
The first complete reprint of the classic fetish digest "of the unusual
and the bizarre." Under the guidance of Leonard Burtman, this presents
the pin-up as a femme fatale, a dominatrix with tight corset, razor heels,
and complex underwear. Burtman experimented with bondage scenes and group
poses, using many models (including Bettie Page). Includes classic spot
illustrations and comic stories by Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew. Next
to John Willie's Bizarre, this is the best-known fetish magazine of the
1950s. 1,200 illustrations. Three hardcover volumes in an illustrated slipcase.
Hardcover from TASCHEN America Llc
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Delta of Venus/Erotica: Anias Nin - acclaimed as some of the best
erotica ever written.
Listed under Anais Nin
The Best American Erotica 2012
by Susie Bright (Editor)
Listed under under Erotic Literature
The
Erotic Sentiment : In the Paintings of China and Japan
by Nik Douglas, Penny Slinger (Contributor)
Paperback Reprint edition (November )
Inner Traditions Intl Ltd; ISBN: 0892814950
Dreams
of Spring: Chinese Erotic Art
Book Description: Erotic art is an eminent part of the cultural
heritage of ancient China, and was already flourishing in pre-Imperial
times. With its peak during the late-Ming period, this art remained a fixed
feature in Chinese literature and visual arts until well into the 20th
century. At its best, Chinese erotic art is a search for beauty in all
its manifestations, for not only does it offer stimulation, it provides
a source of great aesthetic pleasure. It never presents sex in a crude
or pornographical way, but within a framework of beauty and harmony, enhanced
with details of a profound or symbolic nature.
DREAMS OF SPRING presents for the first time the treasures of one of
the world's most important collections of Chinese erotic art. The text
and descriptions in this book are the result of many years of scholarly
research by one of the principal authorities in this field; Rev. Yimen,
who studied Chinese history and literature at the major universities of
China, before devoting herself to this neglected field of China's spiritual
traditions
Hardcover - 208 pages
ISBN: 9054960396
Amedeo
Modigliani: Erotic Sketchbook
by Norbert Wolf
Listed under Modigliani
The
Erotic Museum in Berlin
by Hans Jurgen Dopp, Hans-Jurgen Dopp
The Alexanderplatz was the heart of nighttime Berlin and capital of
amusement in Europe in the roaring twenties. It now houses a museum with
a vast collection of erotica. Recording the sensuous life from classical
antiquity to the body-cult in the late 20th century, the Erotic Museum
spans 2000 years of mankind's hidden history.
This catalog contains 400 photographs, objects, prints, and paintings
depicting how erotic preferences changed throughout the centuries. Includes
classic Japanese prints, chastity belts, erotic Javanese blade handles,
sensuous carved furniture and dishware, carved glass phalluses, clocks,
illustrations from erotic fairy tales, illustrated condoms--an incredible
range of sexually-oriented creativity.
Quite explicit, including chapters on Dream of Orgy, Eroticism and
Indignation and Sodom Berlin. 350 color illustrations, 50 b&w. Graphic
work by Von Bayros, Otto Schatz, George Grosz, etc. Very unusual work,
much of which we suspect has never before been collected.
Hardcover from Parkstone Press
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The
Erotic Sentiment
by Nik Douglas, Penny Slinger (Contributor)
Hardcover Reprint edition
Inner Traditions Intl Ltd; ISBN: 0892813792
Erotica
19th Century (TASCHEN Icons Series)
by Gilles Neret (Editor), Gilles Néret
Paperback - 192 pages (March 15, )
TASCHEN America Llc; ISBN: 382285512X
Eros
: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality
by Bruce S. Thornton
Paperback - 304 pages
Westview Pr (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0813332265
Erotica
Universalis, Volume II
by Gilles Neret
A superb collection of sexually explicit imagery from centuries past.
Paperback: 700 pages
TASCHEN America Llc; ISBN: 3822864188; (June 15, ) |
Exquisite
Mayhem
by Ehret, Taschen
The highly glamorized world of professional wrestling has been one
of the most popular forms of entertainment in this country for decades.
The garish costumes and boisterous behavior of the stars of the ring attract
audiences and drive an industry that includes magazines, television and
merchandising. In the '60s and '70s, wrestling was a sport deemed too violent
for television, and this raw form was captured by Theo Ehret. Every picture
is shown full-page, glorifying the size, strength and brutality of these
fearless entertainers, each one filled with pomp and hubris. But another
side to wrestling also grew popular, a form known as "Apartment Wrestling."
These were designed photo shoots in hotels, apartments, or sets made to
look as such, and pitted two women in a bikini match that more often than
not ended in a fully nude erotic display, complete with impassioned expressions
and groping holds. Far too erotic for the mainstream, these were nevertheless
popular as a classic male fantasy. Most of this unusual volume reveals
this erotic side of wrestling. An over-sized, well-done offering that comes
with a clear vinyl dustjacket and images on the endpapers. More than 475
photos, including promotional shots and live matches, plus an index of
images.
Hardcover from TASCHEN America Llc
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Feet-Ishism
(Temptation)
by Hans-Jurgen Dopp
In this work Döpp looks at fetishism through the eyes
of different cultures and its central symbology of the foot (and legs).
Quoting period writers and supporting the text with vintage reproductions,
he shows the worshipful nature of fetishism, how the foot and shoe are
venerated as symbols of femininity and how shoes remain an identifier for
a woman's sexuality.
A well-documented and insightful approach that holds the foot fetish
as a lofty obsession rather than a base hobby for social misfits. More
than 60 illustrations and photographs.
Paperback from Parkstone Press
Fetish Fashion: Undressing the Corset
by Larry Utley, Autumn Carey-Adamme
Listed under Lingerie
Fetish Postcards: FetishDiva Midori Collection
by Steve Diet Goedde
Listed under Postcards
Forbidden
Art : The World of Erotica (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Naomi
Hardcover
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; ISBN: 0764306073
Gustav Klimt : Painter of Women
by Susanna Partsch
Listed under Gustav Klimt
Looking
at Lovemaking : Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D.
250
by John R. Clarke
Hardcover - 406 pages
Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520200241
Love
in the Ancient World
by Christopher Miles, John Julius Norwich
Wonderful images - no so wonderful text.
Paperback - 176 pages (March )
Sterling Publications; ISBN: 1841880108
Hans
Bellmer
by Sue Taylor
The German-born Surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), best known for
his life-size pubescent dolls, devoted an artistic lifetime to creating
sexualized images of the female body--distorted, dismembered, or menaced
in sinister scenarios. In this book Sue Taylor draws on psychoanalytic
theory to suggest why Bellmer was so driven by erotomania as well as a
desire for revenge, suffering, and the safety of the womb. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 296 pages (December 11, )
MIT Press; ISBN: 0262201305
Nudes : Egon Schiele
by Egon Schiele, Alessandra Comini, Gagosian Gallery
Listed under Egon Schiele
Picasso Erotique
by Pablo Picasso, et al
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Roman
Sexualities
by Judith P. Hallett (Editor), Marilyn B. Skinner (Editor)
Paperback - 368 pages (December )
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691011788
Rethinking
Sexuality : Foucault and Classical Antiquity
by David H. J. Larmour (Editor), Paul Allen Miller (Editor), Charles
Platter (Editor)
Paperback - 280 pages (December )
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691016798
Japanese
Erotic Prints : Shunga by Harunobu and Koryusai
by Inge Klompmakers
(Paperback)
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Sex
and the Floating World : Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820
by Timon Screech
Paperback - 256 pages
Univ of Hawaii Pr; ISBN: 0824822048
Forbidden
Art : The World of Erotica (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Naomi
Hardcover
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; ISBN: 0764306073
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Tibetan
Arts of Love
by Gedun Chopel, Jeffrey Hopkins (Editor), Dorje Yuthok (Translator)
Paperback - 282 pages (August 1992)
Snow Lion Pubns; ISBN: 0937938971
Passionate Enlightenment : Women in Tantric Buddhism
by Miranda Shaw
Listed under Tantra
Meeting
the Great Bliss Queen : Buddhists, Feminists and the Art of the Self
by Anne Carolyn Klein
Paperback (April )
Beacon Pr; ISBN: 0807073075
The Path of the Mystic Lover : Baul Songs of Passion and Ecstasy
by Bhaskar Bhattacharyya, Nik Douglas (Editor), Penny Slinger (Illustrator),
Penny Singer (Illustrator)
Listed under Indian Music
Classic
Erotique VHS
Director: Godfrey Silas
Vintage Erotica Anno 1930 DVD
Listed under Erotic Movies
Dirty
Pictures : Tom of Finland, Masculinity, and Homosexuality
by Micha Ramakers
In a gay heaven, the choir robes would be designed by Gautier after
drawings by Tom of Finland. Even on Earth, utopia must be approaching when
the musclebound torsos and bulging baskets of Tom's manly men attract a
full-length critical study. Art historian Micha Ramakers, who previously
edited a monograph of Tom of Finland's drawings, argues persuasively for
the influence of these hyper-masculine figures on gay culture since the
mid-1950s, when the artist's renderings of fantasy men first began to appear
in American beefcake magazines. Although the consistency of Tom of Finland's
technique and themes over the four decades of his working life doesn't
leave Ramakers much room to discuss the development of his subject's talents,
he makes ample use of his few opportunities (like the introduction of more
black figures in the mid-1980s, after the artist spent six months in the
U.S.). More rewardingly, he uses the pornographer's work as a lens for
examining the evolution of gay masculinity since the 1950s. --Regina Marler
- Amazon.com
Hardcover: 270 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.03 x
9.60 x 6.42
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; (March )
ISBN: 0312205260
X-Rated: Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s
by Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh
Listed under Movie Posters
Tom
of Finland : The Art of Pleasure
Hardcover: 350 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.25 x
13.75 x 10.75
Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc; ; (June 15, )
ISBN: 3822885983
Tom
of Finland : His Life and Times (Stonewall Inn Editions)
by F. Valentine Hooven
Perhaps no one has had a greater influence on gay male fashion than
illustrator-cartoonist Tom of Finland. In this volume his unusual and triumphant
life story is told in words and pictures. The pictures, of course, steal
the show, as Tom's bubble-bottomed macho men fight, love, and punish each
other. There's still much to be said about Tom's impact on American and
European gay culture, but this book provides a good starting point not
only for Tom's fans who want to learn about the man behind the leather-clad
images, but also for the uninitiated who've always wondered where the leather-cap-and-chaps
look origintated. Sadly, with Tom's death the flow of testosterone-packed
pictures has stopped, but volumes like this show that there is still life
in his legend. Amazon.com
Voluptuous
Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin
by Mel Gordon
The author has assembled a voyeuristic tour of the sexual paradise
of Weimar Berlin--immortalized as the most debauched place on earth--during
the interwar years. Text and images cover the bizarre to the weirdly fascinating:
sex as a science, nudity for health, vintage sexual "aids," s&m, art
therapy, entertainment, the rampant sexuality of the German Youth Movement,
lesbian hierarchy and other equally attention-getting subjects.
This detailed survey is based on guidebooks, pictorial magazines, personal
memoirs, interviews, sociological accounts, and entertainment programs,
with more than 250 photographs, illustrations, posters, sketches, and diagrams.
Divided into chapters on WWI, prostitution, girl-culture, gay life,
lesbianism, transvestitism, nudism, sexology, sexual perversion, criminal
life, and the Nazi destruction of this underworld. Also includes a directory
of 50 Berlin night spots.
Paperback from Feral House
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Eros in Pompeii : The Erotic Art Collection of the Museum of Naples
by Michael Grant, Antonia Mulas (Photographer)
Paperback - 176 pages
Stewart Tabori & Chang; ISBN: 1556706200
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Secretos Sexuales : LA Alquimia Del Extasis
by Nik Douglas, Penny Slinger
Paperback - 384 pages
Inner Traditions Intl Ltd; ISBN: 0892815884
A remarkably complete book stocked with the knowledge of esoteric Asian
traditions, never before seen by Western eyes. (Village Voice)
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Erotica : An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature
by Charlotte Hill (Editor), William Wallace (Editor)
Paperback (November 1992)
Carroll & Graf; ISBN: 0881848743
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Erotica II : An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature
by Charlotte Hill, William Wallace (Editor)
Paperback (November 1993)
Carroll & Graf; ISBN: 0881847879
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Erotica III : An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature
by Charlotte Hill (Editor), William Wallace (Editor)
Paperback - 160 pages
Carroll & Graf; ISBN: 0786702974
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Spiritual Sex : The Secrets of Tantra from the Ice Age to the New
Millennium
by Nik Douglas
Paperback - 304 pages
Pocket Books; ISBN: 0671537393
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