Erotica 19th Century - From Courbet to Gauguin, édition trilingue français-anglais

Erotica 20th Century. Volume 2, From Dali To Crumb

Aubrey Beardsley

Devils

During the Renaissance, the great artists, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Rapheal, transformed the history of art, achieving an even closer imitation of nature whilst altering it to their taste.From the art, ambiguous beings were born, half man, half woman; female breasts were planted on male busts and a young man's gaze peeped out beneath the eyelids of a Madonna. From his earliest youth, Michelangelo never ceased to suffer, and thereby to create. He attempted to reconcile the apparently conflicting forces that inhibited him: earthly passions and fear of God. Hence the edifice devoted to beauty, celestial and infernal alike, that Michelangelo raised to the glory of God. It has no equivalent nor descendants. His predecessors aspired to Heaven through faith alone; Miichelangelo sought to rise through the contemplative exaltation of beauty.

Michel-Ange

Angels

Salvador Dali 1904-1989. L'Oeuvre Peint, Premiere Partie, 1904-1946

Matisse

Photographing naked girls insouciantly displaying their pubes was a serious offence in 1950's France. Nowadays, these pictures cause us to smile affectionately, for they have preserved all their fresh, poignant innocence.
 Im Frankreich der 50er Jahre war es ein schweres Vergehen, nackte Mädchen zu fotografieren, die unbekümmert ihre Scham zur Schau stellten. Heute betrachten wir diese Bilder mit einem liebevollen Lächeln, da sie nicht von ihrer frischen, kecken Unschuld verloren haben.
 Photographier des jeunes filles nues, tous poils pubiens à l'air, constituait un grave délit dans la France des années 50. Aujourd'hui, ces images rétro font sourire et attendrissent car elles ont gardé leur fraîcheur naïve et acidulée.

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