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Tiny creatures who live in the deepest parts of the forest, their
magic is not meant to be seen by the eyes of mere mortals, but
fairies are a playful lot, and occasionally they let themselves be
seen, wearing little more than gossamer wings and a winsome smile!
In this second collection of nymphs and elvettes, we get more
folklore fairies with artwork by Pelaez, Aldo Perez, Diego Florio,
Brian LeBlanc, and many other myth merchants! Outstanding cover
painting by Pelaez.
Bruce Colero has based his entire life and livelyhood on physical
excellence. As a bodybuilder and martial artist, Colero has forged
his own body and mind into a genuine work of art. As the owner of a
health and fitness business based in Canada, he's made his
life-long fascination with the limitless potential of the human
body a country-wide empire. And as an airbrush artist, he's enjoyed
a career creating fantasy and pin-up illustrations of the female
form. It's this third aspect of Bruce's amazing accomplishments
that we're proud to present a full color gallery entitled "Heavenly
Bodies - The Art of Bruce Colero." Using techniques in the real and
virtual world of airbrush and computer, Colero blends the best of
both worlds and the resulting images are both dreamlike and
photo-realistic. A fascinating study of a truly fascinating
individual.
In 2007 TASCHEN released The New Erotic Photography, followed in
2012 by The New Erotic Photography 2. Each book featured hundreds
of fresh and provocative images from the world's most intriguing
erotic talents. Now the best of both books is available in The New
Erotic Photography, featuring 62 photographers from 10 countries,
exploring the global variations of erotic photography, as well as
the evolution of photographic media over the last decade. We see
film give way to digital, while those who persist with film are as
likely to use Polaroids and primitive cameras like the Lomo and
Holga as traditional SLRs. The featured photographers include new
names Gregory Bojorquez, Jo Schwab, Tomohide Ikeya, Frederic
Fontenoy, Andrew Pashis, and Jan Hronsky, as well as established
artists Guido Argentini, Bruno Bisang, Eric Kroll, and the late Bob
Carlos Clarke. Several outstanding women are also featured in this
edition, including erotic film star Kimberly Kane, digital pioneer
Natacha Merritt, heavy metal skateboarder Magdalena Wosinska,
self-portraitist Jody Frost, and cover artist April-lea Hutchinson.
It all adds up to an awful lot of nudes for a tantalizingly low
price. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural
companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Three young and seemingly wholesome teachers do what they can to
take care of their pupils, but school budgets being what they are,
sometimes these ladies have to do much more for the student body!
Artist/writer Enrique Villagran merrily trots back to school to
learn a few more lessons concerning hands-on biology and
hot-and-sticky 101! Third in the series, this professor of popular
culture also tells the tale of two female students in search of
forbidden romance, and a vacation to the tropics that turns out to
be much steamier than was described by the travel agent! Mr.
Villagran has a sly and rude sense of humor, and an eye for erotic
detail second to none! The first two volumes of this series are
constant best-sellers for SQP, so the third time is definitely the
charm!
Undressed to impress. When it comes to pleasure, size doesn't
matter, as we all know it's quality, not quantity, that counts. But
let's admit it: a big penis is undeniably compelling. Big
shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big
penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more than 8
inches (20 cm) making up less than 2 per cent of the world's
population, this rare accessory will always fascinate (a word,
coincidentally, derived from the Latin fascinum, meaning both
phallus and magical spirit).In this companion volume to "The Big
Book of Breasts", we explore the centuries-old fascination with the
large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This
hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos
of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the
legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the
1970s, when the sexual revolution first freed photographers to
depict the male entirely nude. Photographers include Bob Mizer of
Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon,
Sierra Domino, Third World, and Champion Studios, with each of
these iconic photographers interviewed or profiled, along with
information about each of their models. And if this isn't enough,
the book closes with a special surprise comparable to the Guinness
Book of Records' - Norma Stitz featured in "The Big Book of
Breasts"!
Selling your soul to the Devil has never paid such delicious
dividends! Here is a collection of satanic sirens who use their
under-worldly charms to entrance and entrap mortal men to their
eternal doom. This is the latest in one of our most popular line of
books - fiery females in bed with the Dark Lord himself! It
includes art by Boada, Tomas Giorello, Meriggi, Pelaez, Maraschi,
Blas Gallego, Pascarelli, Torres, Quintabani, and others. Cover
Painting by Dorian Cleavenger.
You are invited to enter the fantasy world of a "forbidden art,"
erotica, and to explore its many wonders. Over 500 color
photographs of erotic artworks and artifacts are shown here, and
most of them have not been published or exhibited previously. As
you turn the pages, unforgettable images of love, passion, and
sensuality unfold. Feast your eyes and mind upon sexual delights as
you traipse randomly, back and forth, through many centuries,
countries, cultures, artists, and mediums. The originality and
imagination of the artists may expand, ignite, and incite your
thoughts and senses. The author is a serious collector of art works
and erotica, living in Florida.
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Bombshells!
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Sal Quartuccio, Dave Dunstan, Pelaez
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Putting the "leather" in Leathernecks and the "Gee" in GI's, SQP is
delighted to present a new wing in the vast Gallery Girls museum,
this time showcasing the women of wartime! From the naughty
nose-art girls of WW2 to the hell-bent hellions of modern combat,
Bombshells! contains mega-tons of magnificent warrior maidens, with
artists like Pelaez, Mitch Byrd, Pedro Cuevas, J.L. Czerniawski,
and a mighty battalion of others! Oh, you'll stand at full
attention even while seated, this band of sisters are so hot!
Tennnnn HUT! Cover art by Dave Dunstan. 64 pages black and white
plus color covers.
The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W
Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated
artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter.
Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man
himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his
mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to
effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose
to lead in the last years of his life. A near mythical figure in
his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells the story of the man who was
considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst. A resolute
adventurer, he found new ways of revealing Britain to the British,
astounding his audience with his invention and intelligence. Set
against the backdrop of the finest homes in Britain, the French
Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing
portrait of one of the most important figures in Western art and a
vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.
Say no to silicone: The greatest natural breasts of our times Some
call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the
hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of
Breasts, Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness
through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes. Starting with
the World War II Bosom-Mania that spawned Russ Meyer, Howard
Hughes's The Outlaw and Frederick's of Hollywood, Dian guides you
over, around, and in between the dangerous curves of infamous
models including Michelle Angelo, Candy Barr, Virginia Bell, Joan
Brinkman, Lorraine Burnett, Lisa De Leeuw, Uschi Digard, Candye
Kane, Jennie Lee, Sylvia McFarland, Margaret Middleton, Paula Page,
June Palmer, Roberta Pedon, Rosina Revelle, Candy Samples, Tempest
Storm, Linda West, June Wilkinson, Julie Wills, and dozens more,
including Guinness World Record holder Norma Stitz, possessor of
the World's Largest Natural Breasts. The 420 pages of this book
contain the most beautiful and provocative black and white and
color photos ever created of these iconic women, plus nine original
interviews, including the first with Tempest Storm and Uschi Digard
in over a decade, and the last with Candy Barr before her untimely
death in 2005. In a world where silicone is now the norm, these
spectacular real women stand as testament that nature knows best.
The editor: Dian Hanson is a twenty-five-year veteran of men's
magazine publishing. She began her career at Puritan magazine in
1976 and went on to edit a variety of titles, including Partner,
Oui, Hooker, Outlaw Biker, and Juggs magazines. In 1987 she took
over the ?60s title Leg Show and transformed it into the world's
best-selling fetishpublication. Most recently, she authored
TASCHEN's Terryworld, Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection and
History of Men's Magazines six-volume set.
Posing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art
views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual
act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about
personhood. It is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the "sex
image," the artist's posing of human figures in the act of coitus,
is an enduring compositional armature for artists from antiquity to
the present. Singer, however, makes the quite controversial claim
that this aesthetic practice, in literature and painting
especially, serves as a powerful metier for exploring how the mind
is continuous with the sensuously lively body rather than its
rationalistic antagonist. Singer draws upon a rich philosophical
tradition-from the Greek Stoics, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel to
contemporary theorists of perception and aesthetic agency-to show
how the stakes of aesthetic experience epitomized in the sex image
are essentially ethical. Referencing a broad range of image-based
artworks-literary, painterly, and cinematic-Singer illustrates the
proposition that "posing sex" broadens the scope of our knowledge
about how feeling reciprocates with reason-giving.
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."
Kinbaku is the Japanese word for rope bondage: In the west it is
often referred to as Shibari. Although it originated in Japan as a
means of restraint and torture, during the last hundred years it
has also been used as an activity which gives emotional, physical,
and visual pleasure for the participants. Nawashi Murakawa, the
Artistic Director of the annual London festival of the Art of
Japanese Rope Bondage provides the historical context for the
practice which goes back 12000 years. He also explains how Kinbaku
has developed as a dramatic art form which is performed in front of
audiences in many countries. This series of ten chapters
demonstrates how the art of rope bondage has developed in the UK,
Russia, Canada and the USA as well as presenting a modern day live
performance in Tokyo. The final section shows more traditional
Japanese techniques. Chapters with Japanese contributors provide
the text in Japanese as well as in English. The stunning and
surprising photographs reveal the beauty and daring of the models,
and their written accounts together with those of the photographers
and rope experts give an insight into the lifestyle of those who
practice this particular fetish.
Born like Venus on the half shell from the centuries-long tradition
of the nude in painting, the nude first appeared as a subject
matter in photography with the introduction of the medium itself,
between 1837 and 1840, and has continued as an ever-evolving theme
through changing technical developments and cultural mores to the
present day. This volume surveys the subject of nudity from the
earliest surviving photographs of Greek and Roman sculpture through
studies of living nude models for aesthetic or scientific purposes
to the burgeoning practice of exploring the human body as pure
form. The seventy-eight works, selected from the extensive
collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum and further contextualized
here in the essay Masterworks of the Nude, span the entire arc of
the history of photography in a manner that is both fresh and
illuminating. Among the sixty-four photographers included are
nineteenth-century masters Julia Margaret Cameron, Edgar Degas, and
Thomas Eakins; early-twentieth-century artists Man Ray, Alfred
Stieglitz, and Edward Weston; mid-twentieth-century innovators Bill
Brandt, Harry Callahan, and Minor White; late-twentieth-century
image makers Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Herb Ritts; and
contemporary artists Chuck Close, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and
Mona Kuhn.
Adorable, amazing, and often quite dangerous - these are the
hallmarks of a Dixon girl! UK painter extraordinaire Matt Dixon has
assembled a new gallery of gloriously strong and bad-ass beauties,
this time featuring an introduction by famed actress and fantasy
film icon Caroline Munro! Mutual admiration never looked this good!
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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.
Showcasing a diverse variety of women, these portraits demonstrate
the work of famed nude photographer Thomas Karsten. The collection
captures a variety of unique subjects from different parts of the
world, depicting the individual beauty of each culture and going
beyond endeavored poses to communicate intense emotion and
eroticism. Combined with the author's poetic reflections, this
painstakingly produced volume is both an optical and sensual
pleasure. This bilingual edition includes English and German.
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