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Even in the Western world, which seems completely accustomed to a
widespread appearance of risque images, an erotic painting from
five hundred years ago can still manage to create a sensation. This
book, the fifteenth title in the popular Guide to Imagery series,
is a delightful romp through the portrayal of love and sexuality in
art--age-old subjects depicted in all cultures. The volume surveys
Western artworks illustrating more or less explicitly delicate or
amorous subjects. The gamut of possibilities is vast, ranging from
chaste tenderness to overwhelming frenzies of the senses, from
Classical allusion to sexual fantasy.
A series of general themes is presented, with a detailed reading of
the significance and symbolic content of the individual works
illustrating each theme. In the paintings of the past, the reader
will encounter gestures, objects, places, and situations that seem
familiar and that offer the traditional setting of "love scenes"
from every epoch. The volume closes with a chapter highlighting
some of the most famous couples of all time."
Affect is an essentially indefinable, largely non-conscious quality
that correlates to the experience of diverse emotional and
physiological states. This exciting book examines the idea of
affect in art. Drawing from an international cadre of contemporary
artists working in a variety of media, this book addresses the
question of how bodies are affected by intimate relationships with
and through objects. The book investigates the kinds of intimate
relationships we form with art; explores how art acts as a vehicle
for affective engagement or transactions of desire; what role
gender plays in affect; and how we experience this force in works
of art.
The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining
French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a
lens of diversity and interdisciplinary investigation In its first
issue on photography, this volume of Yale French Studies presents
multiple avenues of interdisciplinary investigation designed to
intersect and open up new areas of inquiry in the twenty-first
century. These intersections push beyond traditional geographic and
gender boundaries, exploring women's photography, new cultural
contexts, trans orientalism, and minority and marginalized bodies.
As they do so, they ask us to reconsider the way that we conceive
of photography's place in the past and in our lives today.
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Various Artists
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Text in English & German. As a photographer, the challenge is
in capturing the very moment that a fluid substance interacts with
the body in a way that will take the viewer on a sensual adventure,
inviting not only to their visual sense but also invoking
sensations of touch, taste, and imagination. When successful, the
result is a unique moment frozen in time, never to be repeated. The
result is photographic imagery that is sensual, provocative and
erotic. Living close to Washington DC, Jim spent many years
photographing landscapes, monuments, masonry and still lifes, and
his stunning images have adorned the offices of doctors, lawyers
and dentists. It was not until his daughter requested Jim capture a
few maternity images for her that he turned his sights to portrait
photography. With this new found passion, Jim completely immersed
himself in the study of lighting, posing, and the business of
photography, and soon found himself perfecting what was quickly
becoming his specialised genre, the fine art nude. Always striving
to aim higher, to always improve, and, yes, to push the envelope
even further. When asked to pick his best image, Jim says "the best
is yet to come".
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Cavegirl Monologue
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Heather Benjamin; Foreword by Reba Maybury
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The subjects of her recent art are a logical continuation of the
larger narrative of Benjamin's body of work: She works to excavate
the female human experience as she knows it. Benjamin muses on
intimacy, sexuality, self-perception, body dysmorphia, and trauma
through her avatars. Her work is diaristic, approaching her
subjects through the lens of her own personal experience; each
piece can easily feel like a self-portrait. Her women are
simultaneously self-assured and crumbled, standing defiantly on
their own two hairy legs, yet seeking the shoulder of an empathetic
viewer to cry on. Benjamin uses her art to sort through her own
trauma and self-analysis, and seeks to give faces, bodies, and
narratives to the different facets of her own womanhood.
This collection of over 250 contemporary retro-style cheesecake,
glamour, and hot rod pinup photographs by Northern California
artist Marilee Caruso takes women from all backgrounds and
transforms them into the classy yet stimulating bombshells of our
parents' and grandparents' day. Inspired by icons such as Marilyn
Monroe, Bettie Page, or Sophia Loren, each portrait provides a
nostalgic glance into the mood, style, and sex appeal of the 1930s,
'40s, '50s, and '60s era pin-up girl. From black and white
Hollywood starlets to greasy hot rod honeys, this bevy of gorgeous
gals has been revamped with vintage hair and makeup, wardrobe, and
posing. Shot with high-quality digital technology of the 21st
century, each image is reminiscent of the drawings of Gil Elvgrin
and Alberto Vargas.
A glimpse through the keyhole of history: From the earliest nude
daguerrotypes to experimental nude photography The history of nude
photography is the history of people s fascination with the topic.
Indeed, the photographic depiction of the human body is the only
subject that has enthralled photographers, theoreticians and
consumers over such a long period more than 150 years. No other
motif is as prevalent as this one during all the phases of
development comprising the history of photography, no other is
present, whatever the technique, and is a subject of discussion
within the context of nearly all aesthetic movements. Nor has any
other pictorial topic produced such a variety of specialities as
the nude: from the ethnological interpretation of the body to the
glamour shot, from nudist photography to the pin-up of today. No
other photographic field of application has inspired as much desire
as it has awakened official wrath. 1000 Nudes offers a
cross-section of the history of nude photography, ranging from the
earliest nude daguerrotypes and ethnographic nude photographs to
experimental nude photography. The period of time spanned by this
work is from 1839 to roughly 1939, from the medium s infancy to the
end of the classic modernist period. Content-wise, the book pays
tribute to the full range of pictorial approaches, from the
manually elaborated artistic nudes of the turn of the century,
enveloped in layers of theory, to the obscene postcard motifs which
had not the slightest artistic pretension and were intended to
exert a maximum effect on the buyer s wallet. All the pictures
shown are taken from the late Uwe Scheid s collection, which was
one of the world s largest and most important collections of erotic
photography."
Fehl Cannon's work is about permission to look, admire &
desire. His guys share his obsession with their bodies. Props are
used as erotic symbols serving as totems of masculinity, emblems of
private and communal fantasies. Fehl Cannon captures male energy,
freezing it for our view in a split-second flash.
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