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Between 1959 and 1969 "under the counter" magazines, with more explicit and quirky content, appeared in the U.S. and Europe. Meet California's King of Magazines, leg man Elmer Batters, bondage master Irving Klaw, England's Harrison Marks, and learn how Scandinavia killed censorship in 650+ covers and interiors.

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The newsstand reeled from the Sexual Revolution in the 1970s. "Real sex" pioneer Peter Wolff vied with redneck Larry Flynt in the U.S.; England went cautiously nude; Germany went classy; Italy ran wild; France channeled Denmark; Japan learned the ropes and Germaine Greer went bottoms up, all in 600+ covers and interiors.

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Swedish Berth Milton and the Danish Theander brothers ended censorship by 1970. Sex shops across Europe and the U.S. showed it all, and the brave can see it here, in 600+ covers and interiors of lesbian bondage, pubic obsession, hippie nudists, rubber love, Ed Wood Jr.'s bizarre erotica and editor Hanson's first magazine.

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Here are the life and works of Diego Rivera: folk hero, husband of Frida Kahlo, and one of Mexico's greatest artists. His giant murals depicting social change still grace the halls of Mexico's public buildings. Much of the photography for this book required scaffolding to achieve the greatest accuracy and show Rivera's murals in detail.

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When is a urinal no longer a urinal When Marcel Duchamp declared it to be art. From his infamous Fountain to reworked Mona Lisa with mustache and beard, this essential introduction to Duchamp surveys his audacious practice of "readymades" and beyond and its critical place in 20th-century art.

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Discover some of the most stunning masterpieces of ancient Egypt. This catalogue gathers sarcophagi, statues, murals, and other timeless treasures by unknown masters from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period. Find out why these centuries-old gems of World Cultural Heritage are displayed alongside masterworks of Michelangelo and da Vinci, from New York to Cairo.

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Ellen von Unwerth's knock-out collection of female sexuality, starring some of the most iconic women of our time including Claudia Schiffer, Eva Mendes, Kate Moss, and Dita Von Teese. Enter a world of femininity, playfulness, and fetish in which subjects intermittently flaunt or guard, but always own, their fantasies.

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It was never a sure thing that James Ensor (1860-1949), the Belgian painter of macabre and ghoulish scenes, would become a nationally revered figure. An expressionist before the term was coined, he used the iconography of masks and skeletons to point up the essential horrors of life, and often underwrote his images with a sardonic gallows humour.

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Unjustly concealed in museum vaults or censored archives, the sensual works in Erotica Universalis finally emerge from subterranean realms in a banquet for the imagination and a feast for the eye! This compendium of erotic arts voyages through history from Ancient Egypt to Ovid, Aretino to Dal, to bring you the fantasies, obsessions, and sheer libido of writers and artists across time.

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Take an intimate promenade through Paris with some 500 images from Eugne Atget, the flneur photographer who excelled in city "documents." Down main streets and side streets, through courtyards, arcades, and the city's 20 arrondissements, we find a unique portrait of a beloved city and the making of a photographic master, hailed by Man Ray, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and beyond.

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This book shows 250 film posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s, revealing a surprising world of innovative aesthetics. With bold colors, dramatic angles, and eye-catching typography, these designs reveal the experimental avant-garde of the early USSR, before Soviet Realism became official art doctrine.

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A must-have for every 21st-century foodie, this book gathers the best infographics of all things eating, drinking, and cooking. Whether it's the secrets of sashimi or stress-free party planning, this is gastro-guidance at its most visually appealing and expert, solving kitchen conundrums in simple and memorable graphics, while exploring visual representation of food through the ages.

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Frdric Chaubin's Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed features 90 Soviet buildings throughout the former USSR, each built between 1970 and 1990. It is a journey through time. With local exoticism, outlandish ideas, and a puzzle of styles, these weird and wonderful buildings are unearthly reminders of a fallen ideology.

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From night skies to morning mists to the much-cited Wanderer above a Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich mastered the emotional and metaphysical experience of nature. This introductory book presents his most important and celebrated works to explore an oeuvre of sublime and haunting impact and a trailblazer of Romantic aesthetics.

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Natural science buffs, graphics professionals, and anyone interested in the visual expression of data will be fascinated by this tribute to Fritz Kahn, the German infographics pioneer. He demystified complex scientific ideas and his creative concepts have influenced generations of artists and designers through to today.

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Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical cartoon in this epic volume of groove. Complete with cultural context, design analysis, and interviews with key industry figures, the collection gathers more than 500 legendary record covers that visualized a golden era of Black music.

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Antoni Gaud merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaud himself, as well as an extensive appendix of all his works including furniture and unfinished projects, this XL book takes us through the Catalonian's fantastical universe like never before.

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Gay Talese's crystalline portrait of Frank Sinatra combined faithful fact with vivid storytelling in a triumph of New Journalism. It is now published alongside notes and correspondence from the author's archives and photographs from Phil Stern-the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over an extraordinary four decade period.

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Gay Talese's crystalline portrait of Frank Sinatra combined faithful fact with vivid storytelling in a triumph of New Journalism. It is now published alongside notes and correspondence from the author's archives and photographs from Phil Stern-the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over an extraordinary four decade period.

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Architect, magazine editor, artist, academic: Gio Ponti's multifaceted oeuvre blurred boundaries across creative disciplines and lead the evolution of modern design in Italy. Filled with archival images, a timeline, and map of his Milanese buildings, this dedicated introduction traces Ponti's most celebrated works and provides an extensive overview of the master designer's sublime career.