These are the most fabulous, provocative creatures in the world of fiction, from H. Rider Haggard's She to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jane, Hedy Lamarr's Tonedeleyo and the modern, bold, daring and dangerous beauties that prowl Silke's imagination. They're all here, the Jungle Goddesses, Queens and Slaves as well as their sisters in that happy madness of exotic femme fatales, Tropic Tramps, Dragon Ladies, Harem Damsels and semi-clad Barbarians. It's not a history, but a celebration of that impossible...
In L'amateur Murielle Victorine Scherre, the visonary behind lingerie brand La Fille d'O, illustrates a world that balances sexual self respect and an object of lust, naughtiness, fantasy and reality. She shows us an erotic world, where mind and body each find their own way. This book provokes questions about the beauty and appeal of the human body and of eroticism. Murielle Victorine Scherre poses questions to herself and others and tries to find the causes defining attractiveness. The result i...
An exciting appraisal of Schiele's sensual paintings. No other artist in early modern art depicted the body so candidly as Schiele, whose uncompromising truthfulness in allegedly pornographic imagery caused him to be imprisoned briefly in 1912.
This collection of love-related art is both a survey of important works and a chronicle of love throughout history. Formal courting, illicit kisses, fervent couplings, unrequited passions and domestic contentment are all captured here in works by van Eyck, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Fragonard, Rubens, Kahlo, Schiele, Klimt, Lichtenstein and others. Each image is accompanied by a brief text that aims to shed light on the customs and mores of the time. In an accompanying essay, the author considers how c...
If you like your coffee icy and your books spicy... this is next on the TBR. Are you devoted to Romantasy, a lover of Regency scandal or a meet-cute connoisseur?Embrace the thrill of romance and escape the mundane with quotes and immersive full-page designs for every book lover.Let your true self shine and indulge your fantasies as you colour your way through these cosy floral mandalas.Remember:Romance is nice but give me some spiceIf they ain't Fae, they ain't BaeBusy reading something scandalo...
Manifesto of the Futurist Demonology
by Kenji Siratori, Dan McNeil, and Kala Gene