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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 704.9428
EAN: 9781558593305
ISBN: 1558593306
Label: Abbeville Press
Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 180
Publication Date: 1993-03
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Sales Rank: 1904965
Studio: Abbeville Press
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This is a celebration of one hundred of the most erotic paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings from diverse eras and cultures, coupled together with revealing commentaries about their sexual and aesthetic content. Erotic encounters have been celebrated by artists from the beginning of time. Presenting a wide range of provocative images, this irresistible volume chronicles a startling variety of sensual relationships from flirtation and seduction through consummation to blissful exhaustion. Dr. Ruth explores every element of sexuality expressed in these works of art, including the pleasures of looking, creative masturbation, and the effects on male and female pleasure of the various positions depicted. All the works have been chosen to meet two criteria: everyone portrayed must be having a good time and each image must satisfy a high aesthetic standard.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Warm and delicious
Dr. Ruth brings us a charming collection, artistic celebrations of sex in all its forms. The book paces itself the same was as a sexual encounter, from first sight and flirtation, through the peak of the experience (alone or with others), on to "blissful exhasution." Westheimer and her collaborators have chosen artworks that praise each phase of the mating game, using images drawn from every era and area of the world.
Westheimer's format invites easy browsing. Most often, each page presents ... Read More
Rating: - Images 5 Commentary 3
Dr. Ruth Westheimer has provided laughs, giggles, and an occasional bit of insight into sex therapy on her old television and radio appearances and here, in this now affordable paperback version of her 1993 book THE ART OF AROUSAL: A CELEBRATION OF EROTIC ART THROUGHOUT HISTORY she extends her slanted knowledge to include art. Though there is an unidentified ghost writer and researcher (?Andrew Shelton) involved, the spotlight is on Dr. Ruth as she makes witty comments (sheathed in a condom of profundity!) ... Read More
Rating: - Great entertainment, but non-existent scholarship
This is an excellent cross-selection of international erotic artwork. Although pieces from Western civilization are more heavily-weighted, there are still plenty of sculptures/paintings from Asia, South America, and Africa. The time range runs the gamut from thousands of years ago to modern art. The pieces are chosen well, and the colour reproduction is admirable.
Do not expect a meticulously-researched book, though. I don't have a terrific knowledge of general art history, but I do know a bit more ... Read More
Rating:  - Too Obvious
Of course I saw this book in a bookstore. I bought it. I read it. I believe it. I don't care if Dr. Ruth is a real doctor. I have to believe that Egon Schiele actually saw everything he painted or drew, even if it was only in his dreams. Am I reading this right?
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