The Encyclopedia of
Bad Taste
Pin-Up Art
"The
house of sleep"
(Erotica in Art)
"The
Second Temple of Beauty"
(Nude in Art of the
20th century)
Fine Art
Photography
Pin-Up Photography
Vintage Photography
Gallery
Marilyn
Monroe -
American symbol
Fantastic Art
Kitsch, velvet painting, provocative art
Dreamland Japan.
Writings on Modern Manga
(by
Frederik L. Schodt)
Manga! Japanese Comics.
Antology of Modern Manga
Alchemy & Mysticism.
The Hermetic Cabinet
(by Alexander Roob)
Monalisamania
"Rubenesque" proportions
"THE HOUSE OF SLEEP"
" In art, immorality cannot exist.
Art is always sacred"
August Rodin
"Everything You
Always Wanted
to Know About Sex
But Were Afraid to Ask"
Woody Allen
Erotica in Art
(Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Literary or artistic works having an erotic theme; especially, books treating of sexual love in a sensuous or voluptuous manner. The word erotica typically applies to works in which the sexual elementis regarded as part of the larger aesthetic aspect. It is usually distinguished from pornography, which can also have literary merit but which is usually understood to have sexual arousal as its main purpose.
There are erotic elements in literary works of all times and all countries. Among the best-known examples of erotic literature are the Kama-sutra and other Sanskrit literature from about the 5th century AD, Persian lyric poems called ghazals, Ovid's Ars Amatoria, the 16th-century Chinese novel Chin p'ing, William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, the writings of the Marquis de Sade, and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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