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The Erotic Arts
Webb, Peter
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Year Published: 1975
Pages: 514pp ISBN: 436 56550 1
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Preface
Introduction
1. Art and Pornography
2. Sexual Themes in Ancient and Primitive Art
a: Ancient and Primitive Cultures (by John H. field)
b: The Classical World
3. Eroticism in Oriental Art and Religion
a: Introduction
b: India (edited by Peter Webb from a lecture given by Philip Rawson)
c: Islam
d: China
e: Japan
4. Eroticism in Western Art
a: Middle Ages to 1700
b: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
c: Decadent Art (by Simon Wilson)
5. Sexual Attitudes in victorian Art and Literature
a: Erotic Themes in Victorian Art and Photography
b: Erotic Themes in Victorian Literature
6. Twentieth-Century Erotic Art
a: Compulsive Eroticism in Twentieth-Century Art
b: Eros and Surrealism (by Robert Stuart Short)
7. The Erotic Novel: A Critical View (by David F. Cheshire)
8. Eroticism in Films
9. Eroticism in the performing Arts (by David F. Cheshire)
10. The Theatre of Celebration
Appendix I: Aretine, Biulio, Marcantonio, and The Sonnets
Appendix II: The Restricted Collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum
Appendix III: Eroticism in Twentieth-Century Art: Interviews with Contemporary Artists
a: Hans Bellmer
b: Allen Jones
c: David Hockney
d: Henry Moore
Appendix IV: Censorhip in the Cinema
Appendix V: Pornography: A Brief Survey
Notes
A Critical Bibliography
Index
Subject Headings