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This fascinating book tells the story of the fearless and innovative publishers who combined pornography and avant-garde literature to make a lasting mark on twentieth-century culture.

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The fascinating story of fearless and innovative publishers and authors who wrote their own sexual revolution before the sexual revolution.

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This landmark collection of the acclaimed Italian comic book artist Robert Baldazzini is a spectacular showcase of the outrageous and provocative work he has written and illustrated over the past three decades.

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A lavish portfolio of never-before-seen erotic drawings by celebrated twentieth-century American artist and gay icon, Paul Cadmus

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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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Carefully curated and beautifully packaged erotic art through the ages 170 works from the world's most important artists

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Robert Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 258 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are hand-colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total the book features 14 complete stories.

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A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture.

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(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

"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.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

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.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

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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Maurice Vellekoop's Pin-ups is a collection of pictures of sexsational men and boys of all types and sizes, drawn from the delirious imagination of the creator of Maurice Vellekoop's ABC Book and the "Greek Love" set of prints.

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A fascinating chronicle of his erotic artist Peter Flinsch's life, with an extensive collection of his art.

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Shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life. This book examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. It offers an exploration of how and where art and sex connect, and reimagines the relationship between sex and art.

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