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Depictions of old age in art from ancient to modern.

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From Steve Forster, award-winning portrait artist and co-director of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists presents essential lessons on how to paint a radiant likeness in oils.

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An album cover collection exploring 70 years of surprising, shocking and frankly hilarious nude and provocative art. Sexy covers sold all musical genres, from funk to punk, and the silly German schlager. Comedy albums range from mid-century "stag party" pin-ups to the undeniably raunchy '70s sensation, Blowfly. Steamy, seamy and adults only.

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The complete adventures of Kake, Tom of Finland's ultimate leatherman, who travelled the world on his motorcycle spreading the gift of ecstatically explicit gay sex. See Tom's own personal fantasies lived out in these 26 episodes of mustaches, muscles and liberated libido, now some of the most famous cartoons in the history of gay art.

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Painters Marie Vassilieff, milie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon explored sexuality and questioned gender identity. Working in early twentieth-century Paris, these women contravened social mores, challenged traditional and avant-garde artistic practices and partook in the making of the modern nude.

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Creating Professional Characters explores how top professional character designers develop engaging characters from the basic concepts outlined in production briefs.

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Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. This book offers an assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. It seeks to re-establish shunga in a proper historical frame of culture and creativity.

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This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France - painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters - resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ground of the flaneur. -- .

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A compelling collection of self-portraits from throughout recorded history, revised toinclude captivating contemporary works

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Whether for work on a finished piece, trying a new technique, or getting in some practice time, this figure study enables artists to work when and where they want with their choice of model, pose, and view. It features 12 male and female art models.

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A stunning tribute to one of the world's best loved musicians, this volume brings together the work of 40 artists

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"Men's magazine" is a euphemism for "sex magazine," though when first conceived in Paris colorful illustrations, jokes and cartoons predominated. Volume 1 covers this genre from its sophisticated beginnings in 1900 to 1945, with over 700 rare covers and interiors from France, Germany, the U.S. and-surprisingly-Turkey.

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After WWII the U.S. assumed men's magazine dominance. This volume documents that rise from 1946 through 1959, in over 650 covers and interiors, including burlesque magazines, a rare title for Black men, the first fetish magazines, the launch of Playboy, and some timid English and Latin American offerings.

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The Sexual Revolution brought France and Germany back into serious men's magazine production, along with Italy, England and even Australia between 1959 and 1969. Playboy met serious competition from Penthouse, big breast magazines debuted, and this volume covers it all in 650+ covers and interiors.

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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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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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Life Without Blinders is an inspiring, though-provoking invitation to step out of the darkness and discover the abundant beauty hidden in this crazy, messy, wonderful world of ours. Each spread features one of 75 stirring questions accompanied by an image

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Showcases 450 portraits by 200 artists, in a wide variety of media from oil painting to iPad art, watercolour to ballpoint, linocut to mosaic