Erotic art / Erotica in the arts Books
Edition Skylight Erotic Sessions
Book SynopsisThe son of artist parents, Dahmane was born in Paris on 21 April 1959. His father was a painter and engraver, and his mother a poet and painter. Dahmane became familiar with photography at an early age, being first introduced to it by his grandmother and a photographer friend of his parents. At 15 he began to develop a consuming interest in nude photography, gathering his first experience with two classmates from secondary school, who modelled for him. His predilection for black and white photography has continued into the Millennium; the medium allows him to refine and develop his technique as part of an on-going process. He quickly learned that Leica lenses give you the best results, and for this reason, prefers Leica SLRs and enlargers. Dahmane published his first work before he was 20, including an extensive reportage on the suffering of animals in zoos. At the same time, he worked as a freelance portrait photographer for a range of French magazines, including LExpansion, Capital, LExpress, Le Figaro, VSD, Closer, LUsine Nouvelle and others. Several volumes of his nudes have been released, including Dahmane (bags), Dressed Nudes (Futami-Shobo), Dressed Nudes (Edition Skylight and La Musardine), Erotic Sessions (Edition Skylight and La Musardine) and Addicted to Nudes (Edition Skylight and La Musardine). His nude works have been published all over the world and exhibited in London, Paris, Rome and Los Angeles, among other places. Dahmane still lives in Paris, and continues to devote himself to photographing female nudes and doing portraits. He is represented by the Claude Lemand Gallery.
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Oxford University Press Inc Core Connections
Book SynopsisCore Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolution''s Aftermath explores the intricate networks of belly dance in Cairo, Egypt following the turbulent aftermath of the January 25, 2011 revolution. This comprehensive ethnography takes readers on a captivating journey through the city''s diverse dance landscapes spanning from Nile cruising tourist boats and decadent five-star hotels to smoky late-night discos and Pyramid Street cabarets. While mapping the multiple maneuverings of Cairene dancers and viewers alike, author Christine Sahin centralizes the dancers'' embodied political insight while fleshing out nuanced portraits of their lives and stories amidst ongoing political precarity. Bridging the realms of Dance and Middle Eastern Gender Studies, this groundbreaking book not only analyses but embodies ethnography. This book''s ethnographic approach mirrors the core of Cairo belly dance itself via attending to dual meanings of moving; centralizing mobility and movement as sites of
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Posing Sex
Book SynopsisPosing Sex: Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about personhood. It is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the sex image, the artist's posing of human figures in the act of coitus, is an enduring compositional armature for artists from antiquity to the present. Singer, however, makes the quite controversial claim that this aesthetic practice, in literature and painting especially, serves as a powerful métier for exploring how the mind is continuous with the sensuously lively body rather than its rationalistic antagonist. Singer draws upon a rich philosophical traditionfrom the Greek Stoics, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel to contemporary theorists of perception and aesthetic agencyto show how the stakes of aesthetic experience epitomized in the sex image are essentially ethical. Referencing a broad range of image-based arTrade ReviewThis risk-taking, fearless book is a continually rewarding act of looking and feeling and thinking, insisting on their intimacy but also enacting it on the page, where Singer's intellectual reach and analytical rigor produce an abundance of arresting perceptions of sensuous aesthetic experience. * Ross Posnock, Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University, USA *Drawing elegantly on Hegel and Spinoza, as well as contemporaries like John McDowell, Alan Singer regards aesthetic depictions of sex not merely as lewd images, or objects for the male gaze, but as a matrix through which personhood is made intelligible. Posing Sex invites us to see in such images how conceptual capacities are at work in the deliverances of our senses, and how knowledge of self and others can be achieved where we least expect it. * Paul A. Kottman, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, The New School for Social Research, USA, and author of Love as Human Freedom (2017) *[R]emarkably sensitive and intricate in surveying how aesthetic moments may connect to more comprehensive aspects of life by virtue of the kinds of ‘mindfulness’ they pursue … Singer deploys a unique mode of argument that we might best characterize as philosophical bricolage. * Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley, JML Blog Review Roundtable, JML Blog Review Roundtable *A leading virtue of Alan Singer's Posing Sex is its commitment to a theorization of literary and visual art that might please even the opponents of aesthetics. Those partisans will find no shrinking from action here … One value of Singer's literary-critical iconoclasm lies in his ability to bring into the domain of mindedness and action texts that range from Lady Chatterley's Lover to Henry Miller's Sexus to Lolita; and to do the same for erotically-charged visual art by Balthus or Bacon or John Currin, and for the film art of Lars Von Trier. * Robert L. Caserio, The Pennsylvania State University, JML co-editor, JML Blog Review Roundtable *I urge [readers] to ‘taste and see’ for themselves, and in the reading of the entire book … they will experience the surprises of informed and just critical judgments and the shocks of new aesthetic experiences. * Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University, JML co-editor, JML Blog Review Roundtable *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Posing Sex: Prospects for a Perceptual Ethics 2. Learning from Imagination: Re-Imagining Moral Knowledge 3. The Senses of Personhood: Beyond Allegories of the Body 4. The Impositions of Perception 5. Knowledge in the Flesh Bibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde
Book SynopsisFrom the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and artists, many anonymously. Most of these pornographers wrote to survive, but some also relished the freedom to experiment that anonymity provided - men writing as women, and women writing as men - and some (Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller) went on to become influential figures in modernist literature. Dirty books tells the stories of these authors and their remarkable publishers: Jack Kahane of Obelisk Press and his son Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press, whose catalogue and repertoire anticipated that of the more famous US publisher Grove Press. It offers a humorous and vivid snapshot of a fascinating moment in pornographic and literary history, uncovering a hidden, earlier history of the sexual revolution, when the profits made from erotica helped launch the careers of literary cult figures.Trade Review'Reay and Attwood tell the story of Obelisk and Olympia with admirable scholarly precision.'The Literary Review'Reay and Attwood’s chapter on Kahane’s Obelisk Press... is one of the best.'The Spectator'Avant-garde art has long been associated with the shock of the new but in Dirty Books, Barry Reay and Nina Attwood show the extent to which erotic fiction fuelled modernist writing in London, New York and Paris. Drawing on a motley cast of characters from Anaïs Nin to Alexander Trocchi, Dirty Books is a gripping account of sex, censorship and the avant-garde. ' Douglas Field, co-editor of James Baldwin Review and author of All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin (OUP, 2015).‘By pushing the boundaries of legally and artistically valid expression, avant-garde literature often blurred the lines between art and pornography. But Reay and Attwood go further, arguing that even the sleaziest paperbacks from Obelisk and Olympia Press also contain unheralded moments of aesthetic brilliance. Filled with absolutely wild quotes from a plethora of titles and authors well beyond the modernist canon, Dirty Books just might be your guide to a whole new reading list!’David Church, Indiana University‘A short guide to the world of twentieth-century, English-language pornography where pseudonyms abounded, men wrote as women, women wrote as men, classics were eroticized, and new works were passed off as classics of the genre. Reay and Attwood describe a dizzying world where sex and money chased each other into books.’Lisa Z. Sigel, author of Governing Pleasures, Making Modern Love, and The People’s Porn'‘Dirty Books lays bare the secret history of the mid-century literary underground, where modernist classics and porn-for-hire traveled along the same clandestine transnational circuits. A unique combination of scholarly analysis and anecdotal wit, it promises to be the authoritative resource on this crucial strand of modern literary history.’Loren Glass, DEO of English at University of Iowa'Barry Reay and Nina Attwood's Dirty Books is proof-positive that the infamous have more fun. Maybe. Gathered in this clutch of microhistories of literary publishers and their coteries are tales elucidating the glittering and sometimes brutal oscillations between pornography and art in the period right before the sexual revolutions of the late 1960s.'Andy Campbell, USC Roski School of Art and Design -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Beginnings: Jack Kahane and Obelisk Press2 The syndicate: pornography for the private collector3 Olympia, Paris4 Repurposed pornography: the role of erotic classics5 Dirty books6 Sexual revolution: Olympia, New York7 Literature or pornography?ConclusionIndex
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S Q Publications,US GLAMOURAMA THE PIN UP ART The PinUp Art of Carlos
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S Q Publications,US Gothic Art Nouveau The Art of Matt Hughes
Book SynopsisBlending the romantic ideals of Art Nouveau with the dark horror and mystery of Gothic, the resulting mixture is a heady and intriguing combination. Illustrator Matt Hughes has forged these distinct forms into a new movement, perfectly named Gothic Art Nouveau. Wander an exhilarating and forbidding gallery of unique and beautiful creations. Also contains a fascinating step-by-step section.
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JanDraws.com Naughty Book: Vol. II
Book Synopsis75 erotic drawings from mild to very visually explicit. Each drawing is accompanied with a short text to spice up the drawing. Some of the texts are erotic fantasies connected to the drawing, some are anecdotes etc. The texts are written by hand (not typed) by the author to shorten the distance to the reader even more then just by illustrations, to create an intimate relationship between creator and the beholder. The book is designed for women, who use far more senses then just sight oriented men. A small but very naughty book. Designed to be your little under pillow secret. Find your fantasy or explore the ones that hide in the darkest or the wettest place of your heart.
£40.00
Edition Reuss Lovely Sexy Girls
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University of California Press Radical Eroticism
Book SynopsisIn the 1960s, the fascination with erotic art generated a wave of exhibitions and critical discussion on sexual freedom, visual pleasure, and the nude in contemporary art. Radical Eroticism examines the importance of women's contributions in fundamentally reconfiguring representations of sexuality across several areas of advanced art-performance, pop, postminimalism, and beyond. This study shows that erotic art made by women was integral to the profound changes that took place in American art during the sixties, from the crumbling of modernist aesthetics and the expanding field of art practice to the emergence of the feminist art movement. The works of Carolee Schneemann, Martha Edelheit, Marjorie Strider, Hannah Wilke, and Anita Steckel exemplify the innovative approaches to the erotic that explored female sexual subjectivities and destabilized assumptions about gender. Rachel Middleman reveals these artists' radical interventions in both aesthetic conventions and social norms.Trade Review"Rather than calling for a new aesthetic category of “the erotic,” Middleman’s study identifies the use of diverse erotic aesthetics in art produced by women as a means of political action. In so doing, Radical Eroticism amounts to a political act in its own right." * ASAP/J *“…Middleman provides an insightful examination of the exhibition and critical reception of erotic art, laying the groundwork for understanding the social context and political stakes of the approaches of women artists to eroticism in a decade of expanding forms of artistic practice, the demise of modernist aesthetics, and the rise of the feminist art movement.” * Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Performing Eros: Carolee Schneemann 2. Figures of Fantasy: Martha Edelheit 3. Pop Perversions: Marjorie Strider 4. Abstract Eroticism: Hannah Wilke 5. Gender Play: Anita Steckel Conclusion Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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S Q Publications,US Pajama Party
Book SynopsisA young man returns home to his family''s estate after a long mission at sea. Imagine his shock (well, more amazed stroke of luck) to find three young women enjoying an impromptu sleep-over, exchanging sexy stories of recent erotic adventures. Hey, it could happen! At least in the world Norberto Serrano creates in this richly detailed and beautifully illustrated tale of torrid love and unbridled passion! A superheated collection of carnal pleasures, in VERY graphic form!
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S Q Publications,US VELVET LOVE VOL3 GIRL ON Volume 3 Girl on Girl
Book SynopsisAt last, the third and final phase of this sumptuous feast of female passions is ready for its up close and very personal premiere! The stunning artwork of Stefano Mazzotti has made this series the stand-out in sapphic desire and stunning detail! With a running commentary by Silvio Andrei, this third book sets girl on girl on GIRL! Whoa! That's a 33% increase in girlage!
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S Q Publications,US Dragon Song Wings of Conquest
Book SynopsisLatest in the Song series of fantasy art books, Dragon Song takes a loving look (from a safe distance) at that most special relationship between a girl and her dragon! A remarkable oversized collection of paintings and illustrations that celebrate the magnificent flying reptiles of mythology and their ferocious female protectors! Artists include Pelaez, James Hottinger, Dave Dunstan, Carlos Valenzuela, Steve Fastner and Rich Larson, and many more. Fire-breathing was NEVER this hot!
£14.39
Parkstone Press USA, Limited 30 Millennia of Erotic Art
£50.95
S Q Publications,US Booty Pirate Queens
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Astra Zero Astra Zero: Retro Sinners
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Jean Boite editions Marilyn Minter: Elder Sex
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£54.00
Aleph Book Company THE ARTS OF SEDUCTION: The 21st century guide to
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£14.11
S Q Publications,US Art of Adrian Velez AGE of Delights
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£12.34
Taschen GmbH Erotica Universalis
Book SynopsisFrom the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age—whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names such 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 Universalis, 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. For this new hardcover edition of the classic 1995 best seller, we have culled highlights from our Erotica Universalis collection.Trade Review“Icons—from Egypt’s Golden Empire to present day—with a knack for translating sexual fantasies into master works of art.” * The Huffington Post *“…it’s possibly the only place you’ll see Rembrandt alongside Robert Crumb, and expert editing means the collection never strays into the predictable Erotic Print Society territory.” * Arena *“It's tasteful in an arty kind of way, which means you won't have to endure red-hot cheeks at the checkout counter. Once home with the lights dimmed, you're sure to be inspired by the sexy visuals.” * Cosmopolitan *
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Dark and Fetish Art
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£28.00
The Art of Ichikawa
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Probe Partners Ltd Submitted
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S Q Publications,US Angel Lust A Gallery Girls Collection 2
Book SynopsisHeaven's missing more than just one angel! We're counting over sixty that have gone AWOL, just to end up in this array! Angel Lust 2 flies into the sky and brings an all-new collection of heavenly guardians down to Earth for we merest of mortals to enjoy! These are the best sort of angels - the kind with a little devil in them, as seen by artists like Candia, Buci, Danilo, Flores, LeBlanc, Marachi, Sosa, and more. Say your prayers and have some breath mints ready!
£9.31
S Q Publications,US Tatz Sin on Skin
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S Q Publications,US Dragontails 3
Book SynopsisAn all-new collection of dangerous creatures of terrible beauty...oh, and dragons too! Contains original full page illustrations by Mitch Byrd, Sanjulian, Pelaez, Arantza, Maraschi, Cuevas, and many more.
£8.54
S Q Publications,US Carlos Diez Sketchbook Devil in the Details
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S Q Publications,US Art of Ed Mironiuk v 1 Volume One
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S Q Publications,US Big Girl Adventures
Book SynopsisA collection of stories written and illustrated by Mitch Byrd. Byrd's attention to detail and sense of humour is matched only by his love of the female form -- in ALL it's myriad shapes and sizes! Big girls don't cry -- they kick ass!
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S Q Publications,US Play with Me
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Lingerie Two Centuries of Luscious Design
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£23.79
S Q Publications,US The Art of Pelaez 1
Book SynopsisWith every drawing, Pelaez is making more manic collectors of his meticulous and sensual portraits. Whether the subject matter is vampires, demons, warrior queens, mermaids, or jungle girls, Pelaez brings his unique style and eye for detail and creates pure magic! This new showcase of his works has been long overdue, and will help bring everyone up to speed on this intensely talented young man.
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S Q Publications,US Giddy Up v 1 Cowgirls Gone Loco Gallery Girls
Book SynopsisOh, you got ropes, and boots, and leather, and gals that just LOVE to get into trouble! What's more fun than Cowgirls gone plumb loco, a rassling and a'tussling under the wide open spaces! When two guys get friendly while wearing big floppy hats, it's a major motion picture event! See just how wild the Wild West can get, with artful eyefuls by artists like Pelaez, Arantza, Maraschi, Sosa, Ponce, Flores, and a whole posse more! Yippie ki yay, mutha ... well, you get the idea! These ladies have more than just their spurs jingling and janglin'!
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S Q Publications,US Dave Nestlers Bad Girls Club Drawn to Misbehave
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S Q Publications,US BANZAI GIRLS STRIPPED DOWN
Book SynopsisJinky Coronado takes her Asian schoolgirl namesake into three worlds of incredible adventures in her ongoing series 'Banzai Girls'. In this deluxe gallery, we get to see sexy Jinky in swimsuits, lingerie, and of course that perennial favorite -- the schoolgirl uniform -- all the while fighting bizarre creatures! Art by Jinky Coronado, with colour by Katrina MaeHao & Michael Kelleher
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S Q Publications,US Tease to Please
Book SynopsisIn this new collection of original paintings, Adrian Velez shifts his artistic focus from cartoony cuties to more realistic pinup portraits, while still retaining the naughty charm and sexiness that has endeared him to his fans. The resulting gallery shows off both his range and depth of talents. And girls. Lots of girls!
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S Q Publications,US Steampunk Rising The Art of Sandra ChangAdair
Book SynopsisA lover of all things vivacious and Victorian (as well as a martial artist and cosplay diva), Sandra Chang-Adair is a painter who puts her passion into every illustration she creates. Here for the first time is a gallery worthy of this fan fave who mashes up pin-up with Steampunk and kung-fu!
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S Q Publications,US Art of Jos Cano A Passion for PinUps
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S Q Publications,US Teach Me XXX 3
Book SynopsisThree young and seemingly wholesome teachers do what they can to take care of their pupils, but school budgets being what they are, sometimes these ladies have to do much more for the student body! Artist/writer Enrique Villagran merrily trots back to school to learn a few more lessons concerning hands-on biology and hot-and-sticky 101! Third in the series, this professor of popular culture also tells the tale of two female students in search of forbidden romance, and a holiday to the tropics that turns out to be much steamier than was described by the travel agent! Mr Villagran has a sly and rude sense of humour, and an eye for erotic detail second to none!
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S Q Publications,US Art Of Claudio Aboy 2 The Art of Claudio Aboy
Book SynopsisNothing excels like excess, and when you're showcasing a heavyweight illustrator like Claudio Aboy, a second helping of his outstanding work is simply a must-do! His first volume of exceptionally good 'bad girls' proved to be one of the best sellers in the SQP line of art books! Claudio was quite happy to chain himself back to his drawing board and whip up an entirely NEW collection of drawings that focus on his favourite subject - the female form! Aboy paints, pencils, and inks - he's a triple threat of breath-taking talent. If you like ladies done the Argentine way (trust us - it's a treat!), then this second tome of torrid lovelies is just what you've been looking for! Scorchin' hot!
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S Q Publications,US Bloodlust
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Edition Skylight Stainless Ladies
Book SynopsisCarrés Photographs are simultaneously totally explicit and totally beautiful This is a literally breathtaking collection of nude photographs by perfectionist French photographer Didier Carré. I had given up hope of finding such images, disappointed by the coyness of nude art photography on the one hand and the wearying over-stimulation of pornography on the other. Carrés photographs are simultaneously totally explicit and totally beautiful. His models have a stillness that says we taken a great deal of care and time to produce these images: take your own time to explore them. Carré demonstrates the power of black and white photography to reveal the true form of flesh and muscle in light and shade. The models are rarely adorned, apart from, in many cases, one, sometimes two, glass dildos that catch the light like a jewel, focusing your attention on their inner centre -- Dermot Cox
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Edition Reuss Natural Naked Bushes: Hairy Legs, Hairy Armpits,
Book SynopsisText in English, French & German. Everything is natural, and normal. I love beautiful women, especially when adorned with their natural, unshaven bush of pubic hair. Women who love themselves and who love their own body in its natural state, including its hair, are often very confident. To my eyes, having a lot of hair is really, very beautiful.
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S Q Publications,US Shameless The Art of Attraction by Barbara Jensen
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S Q Publications,US Cruel Unusual Volume 1
Book SynopsisGreg Loudon is a commercial artist with a dark compulsion. His day job has him working for Fortune 500 companies, but his true passion is pin-up art! Fabulous babes and blood sucking female vampires are more his speed! Creating full-colour paintings for Marvel, White Wolf, and Wizards of the Coast were just the beginning of his slide to the bizarre. In this all-new collection of material, Mr. Loudon really lets go, showing off his fevered imagination and staggering ability to render females of every description.
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S Q Publications,US Magenta 3
Book SynopsisShe''s ruthless, amoral, and unstoppable. The fact that she''s got a body that turns strong men into puddles of sex-addled goo always works in her favour! She''s Magenta, and when she''s not solving crimes, she''s probably committing a few! Italy''s bad BAD girl is back for a whole new slate of wild and wicked adventures, along with her equally pneumatic (but not quite so clever) pal Lucrezia! Once again Celestino Pes and Nik Guerra team up for retro-fun with their always-naughty curvy creation -- Magenta!
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S Q Publications,US Kiss of Death The Art of Fastner Larson
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S Q Publications,US Inferno
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S Q Publications,US Touch of Magic The Douglas Shuler Sketchbook
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