Author: James Jerman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135862311
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Sexually explicit sculptures may be found on a number of medieval churches in France and Spain. This fascinating study examines the origins and purposes of these sculptures, viewing them not as magical fertility symbols, nor even as idols of ancient pre-Christian religions, but as serious works that dealt with the sexual customs and salvation of medieval folk, and thus gave support to the Church's moral teachings.
Author: Michael A. Rosen
Publisher: Last Gasp
ISBN: 9780867194609
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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Rosen's fourth book furthers his photographic explorations of human sexuality focusing yet another time on the human relationship behind the sexual expressions. The three chapters that can be loosely classified as three moment in a sexual encounter feature a choice of people who definitely express themselves through their sexuality in SS black and white photographs. Rosen manages to illustrate the various facets of the act of love and still challenges our preconceptions in spite of the author claims of presenting "vanilla sex."
Author: Hannah Stouffer
Publisher: Gingko Press
ISBN: 9781584236818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Whether it glows lustrously from neon, emanates purely from LEDs or radiates with intensity from lasers, this elemental medium, light, fascinates artists and viewers alike. Lust for Light selects works by artists who have used light as a primary or catalyzing agent in the featured pieces. Taking a dynamic approach in its curation, the book features the use of illumination in more traditional gallery forms as well as in three dimensional and large-scale installation pieces. Many of the featured artists are skilled fabricators who have been honing their light-inspired works for years, while others have made stunning pieces through collaborations and daring forays, cross-pollinating their artistic visions with new technologies in the process. Featured artists include Yayoi Kusama, Ivan Navarro, Jennifer Steinkamp, Laddie John Dill, Joanie Lemercier, Massimo Uberti, Barry Underwood, Miguel Chevalier, James Clar, Liz West and more.
Author: Larry Clark
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802116772
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Clark's classic photo-essay of Midwestern youth caught in the tumult of the 1960s is available for the first time in nearly 20 years. The raw, haunting images document a youth culture progressively overwhelmed by self-destruction and are as moving and disturbing as when they first appeared.
Author: Donna Ferrato
Publisher: Aperture
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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From the award-winning photographer of Aperture's seminal Living with the Enemy, now in its fourth printing, comes Donna Ferrato's second book, Love and Lust. In these photographs, representing nearly thirty years of her work, Ferrato encourages a relaxed acceptance of all the positive expressions of human feeling, be they childlike or provocative and fabulously steamy.
Author: Michelle Olley
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
ISBN: 9781560253099
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Love Lust Desire is the ultimate book of erotic photography for couples, featuring the best work of the leading erotic photographers. These photographs celebrate the ways in which people express their sexuality, from fetishism to fantasy, and show the beauty of the naked male and female form. The images of couples bring a new dimension to the nude study, while the range of photographers, with their different approaches, provides a comprehensive review of erotic photography over the last century. Superbly and lavishly illustrated with outstanding color, duotone, and black and white photographs by some of the century’s best photographers including Michael Childers, Bob Carlos Clarke, Wolfgang Eichler, Nan Goldin, James & James, Pierre et Gilles, Housk Randall, Wolfgang Tillmans and Trevor Watson.
Author: Joel-Peter Witkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Inevitable death and our agony to attain Utopia have made existence a form of pathology. We are left with the secret need for redemption which few of us will understand or witness. This need still lives in acts of love, courage and art. In the images included in this book it is found in the conjoined destinies of artist and subject, phantoms on either side of that curtain we call photography. Implicit in these photographs is the brutal extreme of their purpose and an intimation however distant to their makers that something was manifested beyond the event itself.
Author: Jeffrey Fraenkel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781881337379
Category : Photography of the nude
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Celebrated and revered by artists, the work of Peter Hujar remains something of a public secret, but his photographs dealing with sex and eroticism, made between the years 1969 and 1986, have come to define a certain era in New York. Today they are widely considered to be his finest and most radical work. Hujar's view of the human body is uninhibited and uncompromising, but his poignant explorations of sexuality and desire also project a universal humanity; as Nan Goldin said of Hujar's nudes, "Looking at his photographs of nude men, even of a naked baby boy, is the closest I ever came to experience what it is to inhabit male flesh." This monograph, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, is the first to deal specifically with Hujar's photographs of love and lust. Captured in deeply textured black and white, these photographs present a view of human relationships that encompasses both the tender and taboo. This volume also contains an interview with author Fran Lebowitz from 1989, and newly commissioned essays by Vince Aletti and Stephen Koch. Peter Hujar(1934-1987) was born in Trenton, New Jersey and moved to Manhattan to work in the magazine, advertising and fashion industries. He documented the vibrant cultural scene of downtown New York throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976, he published Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag. Hujar died of AIDS in 1987.
Author: Debra Hassig
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815329527
Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Nicola F. McDonald
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1903153506
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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"Medieval Obscenities examines the complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive, indecent or morally repugnant - in medieval culture from late antiquity through to the end of the middle ages in western Europe. Its approach is multidisciplinary, its methodologies divergent and it seeks to formulate questions and stimulate debate." "The essays examine topics as diverse as Norse defecation taboos, the Anglo-Saxon sexual idiom, sheela-na-gigs, impotence in the church courts, bare ecclesiastical bottoms, rude sounds and dirty words, as well as the modern reception and representation of the medieval obscene. The volume demonstrates not only the vitality of medieval obscenity, but its centrality to our understanding of medieval life."--Jacket.
