30 Millennia of Erotic Art

Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles, Joe A. Thomas, Hans-Jürgen Döpp

Description

From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility, to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in societies, whatever their morals or cultural references. This work assembles one thousand images of erotic art, from all times and all continents, to illustrate how the representation of these pleasures of the flesh testifies to the evolution of different civilisations and their histories. While eroticism abounds today in advertising and in the media, this book offers an exceptional view into the archives of erotic imagery and emphasises the artistic value of these magnificent illustrations of sin.

Sujets

• Photography
• Painting
• History
• Evolution
• Nudity
• Overview
• HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
• Period
• Nude
• Peinture

Informations

• Publié par: Parkstone International
• Date de parution: 04 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783103331
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 32 Mo

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30 Millennia of
Erotic Art
Authors: Hans-Jürgen Döpp (Introduction), Joe A. Thomas, Victoria Charles and Klaus H. Carl
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ISBN: 978-1-78310-333-1
Contents


Introduction
Prehistory and Antiquity
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Baroque
The Modern Age
Index of illustrations
Introduction
Erotic art or pornography?

“That which is pornography to one person is the laughter of genius for the other.”
— D. H. Lawrence

The term “Erotic Art” is muddied by a miasma of ambiguous terms. Art and pornography, sexuality and sensuality, obscenity and morality, are all involved to such an extent that it seems almost impossible to reach an objective definition, which is not unusual in the history of art. How does one define erotic art?
This much is certain: the depiction of a sexual act alone is not enough to qualify it as erotic art. To identify erotic art just by its content would reduce it to one dimension, just as it is impossible to distinguish art from pornography simply by describing what it depicts. The view that erotic works are created solely for sexual arousal, and so cannot be art, is also erroneous. Does the creative imagination brought to erotic art distinguish it from pornography? Yet pornography is also a product of the imagination – it has to be more than just a depiction of sexual behaviour, or who would buy it? Günter Schmidt states that pornography is “constructed like sexual fantasy and daydreams, just as unreal, megalomaniacal, magical, illogical, and just as stereotypical.” Erotic daydreams are also the subject of erotic art. Those making a choice between art and pornography may have already decided against the former. Pornography is a moralising, defamatory term. What art is to one person is the Devil’s handiwork to another. The mixing of aesthetic with ethical-moralistic questions dooms every clarification process from the start.
In the original Greek, pornography means “prostitute writings” – that is, text with sexual content – in which case it would be possible to approach pornography in a free-thinking manner and equate the content of erotic art with that of pornography. A re-evaluation of this term wou