Erotica Universalis: From Pompeii to Picasso - Softcover

Neret, Gilles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3822841021 ISBN 13: 9783822841020

Publisher: TASCHEN, 2005

Synopsis

Wonderfully indecent pictures from famous scribblers and anonymous talents alike (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age?whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso?have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, and produced erotic works that the censors have taken good care to keep from the public. For Erotica, we surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those of our national and private libraries. Here we discover that not only most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire, Verlaine or Maupassant, wrote erotic texts that bordered on indecency, but also that great artists like Boucher, Fragonard, Dal? or Matisse were inspired to provide suitable illustrations for these naughty books. Special anniversary edition of highlights from our Erotica Universalis collection!

About this title

About the Author:

Gilles Neret is an art historian, journalist, writer, and museum correspondent. He has organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He has directed art reviews such as L'Oeil and Connaisance des Arts and received the Elie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. He is the editor of TASCHEN'S catalogues raisonnes of the works of Monet and Velazquez, as well as the author of Dali Painted Works.

About this edition

• Publisher: TASCHEN
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3822841021
• ISBN 13: 9783822841020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576