The Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra more books like this

by Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Lance Dane (Editor)

Written almost 2,000 years ago, the "Kama Sutra" deals with all aspects of sexual life, and how to best achieve ecstatic expression of life's beauty. Augmented with 269 illustrations and works of art gathered from museums and collections around the world, the result is a dazzling and sensuous reading experience through which the teachings of the ...

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Erotica Universalis more books like this

by Gilles Neret (Editor)

This second volume of erotic imagery features works created to illustrate works of literature. Artists featured include: Boucher; Dali; and Fragonard, with each image being reproduced in full and with its accompanying text.

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The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis more books like this

by Nick Bantock

The newest novel by the acclaimed author/illustrator of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy is part love story, part mystery, and part ghostly tale--an altogether bewitching brew of sensualtiy and lost treasures. A young woman's obsession with a drawing of Shiva, the Hindu god, leads to a curious job offer: to find the few remaining pieces of a 15-th ...

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Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana more books like this

by Richard Burton (Translator)

In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women... And Vatsyayana, poet, esthete and lover thought they should have some instruction for doing what they like to do best. Hence the Kama Sutra, the ancient manual of love, with descriptions ranging from the ninety-nine positions for sex, to instructions for hitting your lover in moments of ...

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Compulsive Beauty more books like this

by Hal Foster

An examination of the darker forces underlying the Surrealist Movement's devotion to the project of love and liberation. Foster reads Surrealism from the other side: art given over to the uncanny, the compulsion to repeat, and the death drive.

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The Illustrated Kama Sutra: Ananga-Ranga Perfumed Garden, The Classic Eastern Love Texts more books like this

by Richard Burton (Translator), Charles Fowkes (Introduction by), F F Arbuthnot (Translator)

Selections from three Eastern love texts in one volume, handsomely illustrated with a unique collection of Indian art.

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Rodin: Eros and Creativity more books like this

by Rainer Crone (Editor)

This work features over 350 images of selected sculptures and late drawings by Rodin, documenting his obsession with sexuality and revealing the countless ways in which he depicted the subject: as a threat and a challenge, but also as a source of all creative inspiration and passion. Augmenting these illustrations are 10 essays by scholars which ...

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Erotic art : a survey of erotic fact and fancy in the fine arts more books like this

by Phyllis Kronhausen, Eberhard Kronhausen

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Erotic Art more books like this

by Dr. Phyllis Kronhausen, Ed.D., Eberhard Kronhausen, Ed.D.

This landmark book was originally published at $50.00 and sold in excess of 500,000 copies in its cloth edition. Offers a superb selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs ranging in time from classical antiquity to the modern age and covering the gamut of artful sexual imagery.

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Pin Up: A Modest History more books like this

by Mark Gabor

This illustrated history of pin-ups ranges from their origin up to the early 1980s, and includes special spreads from "Mayfair", "Penthouse" and the Pirelli calendars.

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The Art of Arousal more books like this

by Ruth K Westheimer

This is a celebration of one hundred of the most erotic paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings from diverse eras and cultures, coupled together with revealing commentaries about their sexual and aesthetic content. Erotic encounters have been celebrated by artists from the beginning of time. Presenting a wide range of provocative images, this ...

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Dirty Linen more books like this

by Nicholas Kilmer

How did the late Lord Hanford come to possess a cache of old erotic paintings? What of his sudden death and of his lovely American widow? As the nature of the art collection is revealed, so too is its dubious history, involving a shocking crime of Victorian prudery.

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Eros in Pompeii: The Secret Rooms of the National Museum of Naples more books like this

by Michael Grant

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The Temple of Venus: The Sex Museum, Amsterdam more books like this

by Hans-Jurgen Dopp

First put on display together in 1985 by Monique van Made and her father, this collection of erotic works is exceptional for the quality of the objects exhibited, its engravings, and its photographs of yesteryear. Far from being a focus for voyeuristic prurience, the Museum is intended to be understood as a serious center for the history of erotic ...

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Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion more books like this

by Klaus Albrecht Schroder

Examines the erotic work of the Expressionist artist within the perspective of history's shifting views concerning beauty, aesthetics and decency.

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Very Naughty Origami more books like this

by Nick Robinson

Anyone who thought of origami as child's play is in for a surprise with this funny and entertaining book that goes where no other origami books have gone before. Combining the ancient Japanese art of origami with humor and sex, each project transforms an average piece of chaste, virgin paper into something both artistic and enticing. Full-color ...

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Beefcake more books like this

by F Valentine Hooven

This work traces the history of the male nude in magazines (including sports reviews and health journals) from the 1950s to the present day.

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Erotic Art more books like this

by Angelika Muthesius, Gilles Neret

A fine art hardcover from Taschen that focuses on the naughty habits!

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Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome more books like this

by Catherine Johns

Entertaining and thoughtful, this book graphically portrays an area of Greek and Roman life that was an embarrassment to the eighteenth- and nineteenth century scholars discovering these objects in their classical collections. At a time of sexual prudery such material was viewed as unsuitable for serious study and removed from public display. ...

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Sexuality in Western Art Sexuality in Western Art more books like this

by Edward Lucie-Smith

Edward Lucie-Smith's examination of sexuality in Western art from prehistory to the present first treats the tradition chronologically, then considers its characteristic themes and symbols.

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Eroticism and Art more books like this

by Alyce Mahon

Art? Erotica? Or Pornography? Discussions of what actually constitutes erotic art are incredibly complex and usually highly controversial. The naked body in art has been with us since the earliest examples of Greek art and sculpture. The creation and display of such works of art has always inflamed opinion and today, even with our supposed ...

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The Scented Bath: 2a Gift of Luxury more books like this

by Maribeth Riggs

Relaxing in a bath is one of life's simple pleasures. Add a touch of fragrant oil, an invigorating pinch of aromatic spice, and the experience becomes something truly extraordinary. Here is a celebration of the fine art of bathing--beautifully designed and illustrated with 10 full-color paintings. Includes a satin ribbon marker, full-color borders ...

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The Tears of Eros more books like this

by Georges Bataille, Peter Connor (Translator)

Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille reveals their common obsession: death. This essay ...

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Erotic art of India more books like this

by Philip S. Rawson

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Faces of Ecstasy more books like this

by Hans-Jurgen Dopp

The climax to the act of love casts an indefinable expression on the face--an expression of urgent intensity. A women, a man, in that moment experiences an ecstasy that for an instant is visible in the eyes and on the lips. A wave of pleasure runs through the body, marking the transition between desire and orgasm. For this fleeting second, when ...

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