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Title: Erotica 20th Century I (TASCHEN Icons Series) by Gilles Neret, Taschen, Gilles Néret ISBN: 3-8228-5534-0 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Blah!
Comment: The only thing I have to critisize on this specific volume is, that it overrepresents a couple of artists and leaves out so many. Other than that , looking at the "critics" here... I see all the blurb that always comes up when it comes to erotica - there is always a reason why this specific work is bad, why there are maybe some nebulous other ones that are not that bad(but probably will be shredded by a similar reviewer on their page...) People that classify Picasso as a disturbed scribbler, maybe just shouldn't write about art or keep it with Norman Rockwell.
Rating: 2
Summary: Improved artwork over what 17th, 18th, 19th century offered
Comment: Artork improves compared to the 17th-18th and 19th century collections, but it is still often ugly. The gems are few - but those are delicious. I went looking for some of the best artists to see if they had non-erotic works and can't find them. These few were able to sketch/paint people who looked real and maintain an artistic style. One man could run his work in any modern gentlemans magazine and people would wonder who this fabulous new sexy author was, he's that high quality.
Mostly, though, these are repulsively ugly or amateurish works. Picasso's erotica is nothing but the doodles of a bored kid in math class who fills a page with scribblings about genitalia; if you are a Picasso fan, they are true to his norm - but people who judge by quality will laugh. Non-Picasso fans can only laugh at his disturbed works as silly.
Either the editor chose the wrong artists, or maybe most of the people dealing in erotica have a sick viewpoint of sex. The one constant them that comes across is that these people think sex is ugly. (Only one or two refute the idea with pretty artwork.)
Which is what a lot of these are; bad drawings by sick people or at least presenting sick ideas of sexuality.
I've seen a lot of non-erotic nudes and I think overall the reason erotica does has had a bad name in many circles is that it is so poorly done as to give it an ugly reputation. Playboy and more hardcore sources overshadow the overall gloomy, ugly, often silly quality of these works. Indeed, Playboy is mostly respected for beautiful presentations of women; few people would respect the low quality of the grungy works shown here. Except art scholars who have a fad for the stuff.
Mostly this is a collection of ugly pictures about sex.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dirty pictures by any other name
Comment: This series is supposedly a study of erotica through the ages. It is nothing more than a compliation of dirty pictures. Save your money. If you want dirty pictures...there are better books. If you want something that seriously explores erotica over the past couple hundred years this is NOT the place to look. Boring.
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Title: Erotica 17th-18th Century (TASCHEN Icons Series) by Gilles Neret, Taschen, Gilles Néret ISBN: 3822855359 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Erotica 19th Century (TASCHEN Icons Series) by Gilles Neret, Taschen, Gilles Néret ISBN: 382285512X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica by Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Maxim Jakubowski ISBN: 0786709219 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Erotica Universalis by Taschen Publishing, Benedikt Taschen ISBN: 3822881619 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Pussycats by Gilles Neret ISBN: 3822824607 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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