The Erotic Arts

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. Cloth, xxix, 514 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First United States Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Arguably the most comprehensive book on the subject of erotic art with a provocative Brancusi sculpture gracing the front cover. CONTENTS: Art and pornography; Sexual themes in ancient and primitive art; Ancient and primitive cultures, by John H. Field; Eroticism in Oriental art and religion; India, by edited by Peter Webb from a lecture given by Philip Rawson;Eroticism in Western art; Decadent art, by Simon Wilson; Sexual attitudes in Victorian art and literature; Erotic themes in Victorian art and photography; Erotic themes in Victorian literature, by Barry Curtis; Twentieth-century erotic art; Compulsive eroticism in twentieth-century art; Eros and Surrealism, by Robert Stuart Short; The erotic novel; a critical view, by Allan Rodway; Eroticism in films; Eroticism in the performing arts, by David F. Chesire; The theatre of celebration; Aretino, Giulio, Marcantonio, and the sonnets; The restricted collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum; Eroticism in twentieth-century art: interviews with contemporary artists: Hans Bellmer; Allen Jones; David Hockney; Henry Moore; Censorship in the cinema; Pornography: a brief survey.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.