Apropos

“…the girls are beautiful, even the orchestra is beautiful!”

Néret Gilles

Softcover, flaps, 14 x 19.5 cm

576 pages, € 9.99

ISBN: 978-3-8228-4102-0

From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age—whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso—have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, and produced erotic works that the censors have taken good care to keep from the public. For Erotica, we surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those of our national and private libraries. Here we discover that not only most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire, Verlaine or Maupassant, wrote erotic texts that bordered on indecency, but also that great artists like Boucher, Fragonard, Dalí or Matisse were inspired to provide suitable illustrations for these naughty books.

Yes, photographing of a model with the emphasis on the subject is often a banality, a commonplace or even can be a bad taste. But sometimes it is just impossible to refrain from admiring a beauty. After all, people do some usual and trivial yabba dabbas every day and night, and the mankind is still alive…

Lev Yudalevich is a globally minded person.
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