
From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility, to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in societies, whatever their morals or cultural references. This work...
What happened to the insolence of the 18th-century libertines or to the carefree excesses of the Belle poque and its legalized brothels? They have merely been inhibited and buried by the nowadays political correctness...
Different eras and civilisations have treated erotic images with varying acceptance and different concepts of erotica and these tendencies are reflected within the works themselves. From ancient statues devoted to...
Sex in the Cities. Volume 1. Amsterdam
Amsterdam is not only famous for its canals, nor for its impressive collections of paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Gogh, but also for its museum dedicated to Venus, which welcomes more than 500,000 visitors...
Sex in the Cities. Volume 3. Paris
Conveying six centuries of gallantry, serving as the world capital of fashion and love, Paris is the very symbol of eroticism and of joyful sexuality. Offenbach, in La Vie Parisienne, had already created a hymn...
Sex in the Cities. Volume 2. Berlin
In the 1920s, Berlin, once perceived as a puritan city, became the capital of lust and the debauchery of morals. It was in this capricious town that an exceptional museum dedicated entirely to eroticism opened its...
Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jrgen Dpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple...
Numerous and diverse points of view come together in this work, demonstrating the multiple aspects that sexuality can present. If nothing is more natural than sexual desire, it is nothing less than the forms by which...
Since The Turkish Baths (1863) by the French painter Ingres, the Far Eastern woman has, to many, been a symbol of out of reach or forbidden pleasures. Seafaring explorers, military adventurers and simple travellers...
Lacan, dernier propritaire de L’Origine du monde de Courbet, aimait le tableau si fort qu’il ne pouvait le regarder. Alors il le cacha derrire un tableau anodin. Les Chinois l’appelaient la « valle des roses »...
