Ars Erotica

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i/- lii-Ainy is in the eye of tlie beholder, eroticism is in the mind. It is not merely the efTcct of seeing a picture or reading a text, but how the individual reacts to that stinuilus - whether in shock, indifference, scorn, or arousal. Ars P.roticii looks at the way in which perceptions of the erotic and its expressions have changed at turning points in We.stern history - how the interplay of repression and permissiveness has affected art and literature.
The book presents sexuality of every kind in twelve thenied chapters - from group sex to solitary joy, from gay to straight, from the heavenly bliss of the classical gods to the more mundane pleasures of earthbound lust. The social course of sexuality is revealed in the erotic poetry and prose of writers from ancient times through the present, including John Donne, Riblo Neruda, the Marquis de Sade, e.e. cummings, and the many anonymous writers of works such as First Tmiiiiini, Venus In India, and The Story of O. Arousing art... Tovább

Fülszöveg

i/- lii-Ainy is in the eye of tlie beholder, eroticism is in the mind. It is not merely the efTcct of seeing a picture or reading a text, but how the individual reacts to that stinuilus - whether in shock, indifference, scorn, or arousal. Ars P.roticii looks at the way in which perceptions of the erotic and its expressions have changed at turning points in We.stern history - how the interplay of repression and permissiveness has affected art and literature.
The book presents sexuality of every kind in twelve thenied chapters - from group sex to solitary joy, from gay to straight, from the heavenly bliss of the classical gods to the more mundane pleasures of earthbound lust. The social course of sexuality is revealed in the erotic poetry and prose of writers from ancient times through the present, including John Donne, Riblo Neruda, the Marquis de Sade, e.e. cummings, and the many anonymous writers of works such as First Tmiiiiini, Venus In India, and The Story of O. Arousing art of all periods and mediums - images illu.strating the Kanui Sutra and Japanese scrolls, the engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi, the paintings ofWatteau and Manet, Edvard Münchs Piilnrty, the photography of Arthur Tress, and the work of Aubrey Beardsley, David Hockney, Andres Serrano, and many others - illustrates the theme of each chapter. Contemporaneous social and critical reactions to this art and literature are discussed, and debates are presented on the timeless issue of pornography.
This book is invaluable as a presentation of art and literature that has often teetered on the fringes of acceptability, and the beliefs and fears that have kept it there. As a gorgeous, sensual experience in itself. Ars Hroticn is the ultimate social and artistic history of the erotic, ft Vissza