Sex sells! It's no secret that since moving pictures were invented, distributors and theater owners realized that nothing really promotes a movie better than blatantly sexual advertising. X-rated adult movies reached their peak in the 1960s and 70s, with films like Debbie Does Dallas and Deep Throat. While some films were hard-core and left nothing to the imagination, most enjoyed the art of innuendo, which is to say, you couldn't tell whether the participants who were getting it on were faking it--or doing it for real. Even though most of the adult movies of the 60s and 70s have faded into cinematic history--and their stars have retired into elderly care homes for the well-endowed (giving new meaning to the term "nursing home")--what remains, as a lasting legacy, are the posters. If the poster art in this book evokes those far-off days of suspender belts, stockings, and eye-popping, gravity-defying brassieres, not to mention outsize Y-fronts, then that alone is worth the cover price. It's practically cheaper than a movie these days, anyway.

X-Rated: Adult Movie Posters Of The 60S And 70S

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

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In his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan wrote the famous words: "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." As predicted by the renowned Canadian media theorist, satellite telecommunications, beginning with the first Sputnik launch in 1957, united humanity under a vast "cosmic membrane." An immense web of waves echo information around the planet, and distance and time are abolished. Dreams, upheavals, trends, and conflicts are now experienced on a global scale. Global Village: The 1960s plumbs the depths of those planetary echoes as they resonated throughout the decade in the fields of visual arts, decorative arts, fashion, and architecture. Along with a wealth of images, it contains interviews with diverse key figures of the time, including designer Ettore Sottsass, art critic Arthur Danto, artist Yoko Ono, filmmaker Agn s Varda, curator Okwui Enwezor, writer Tobias Wolff, playwright Michel Tremblay, and artist Carolee Schneeman.

Global Village: The 1960S

ENWEZOR, Okwui

Danto, Arthur

De Kerckhove, Derrick

Detheridge, Anna

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

From the Pax Romana to Peter Mayle, Provence's lovely climate and lively landscape have proven irresistible to visitors, and especially artists. The fabled landscape cheered up even Van Gogh, whose short but productive time there resulted in paintings in blazing golds and uncharacteristically bright letters to his brother. This exhibition catalogue collects some 180 works from a fertile century and a half of painting, encompassing Classicism, Romanticism, Naturalism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism. The tour of Provence starts with Vernet's high views of the port of Marseilles (a favorite subject of others as well), continues through late eighteenth-century celebrations of natural phenomena such as the gorges of Ollioules, and comprehensively covers the explosion of masterworks of the 1880s leading into the 1920s, including those by Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Cezanne, Derain, Dufy and Braque. By primarily focusing on landscape, Right Under the Sun allows us to see these master artists anew, and offers insight into the development of Provencal painting, examining the effect of the harsh light and the rise of the panoramic compositional format.

Right Under The Sun: Landscape In Provence

History & Criticism

Description: Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames intimately explores Expressionist Claude Monet's London series of paintings, especially those that immortalized the Thames River. In this volume we are invited to explore the scope of the socio-cultural context of that time, through the works of Monet's contemporaries: Derain, Coburn, Fenton, Pennell, and Whistler, to name a few. In the latter half of the 19th century, London, specifically around the Thames, had become a seductive urban landscape--a place that encouraged artists to create. Not only does Monet's London document an important exhibition, but it is also the first publication to thoroughly document and discuss the artistic and cultural context of Modernist London (1859-1914), with special emphasis on the visual power of the Thames River.

Monet's London

Hardin, Dr. Jennifer

House, Prof. John

Individual Artists

History recognizes Catherine the Great's remarkable temperament, political savvy and lavish reign (1762-96). The Empress is also known to have been an avid collector and enlightened patron, interested in everything and leaving nothing to chance, for she believed strongly in the political power of art. This German princess, an immigrant in far off Russia and a Russophile without a drop of Russian blood, took to her adopted homeland with a passion. She aspired to advance Peter the Great's endeavours to raise the country to modern heights. Guided by the finest advisors and demonstrating stunning extravagance, she ostentatiously bought up entire art collections from across Europe, without question becoming the founder of the Hermitage's collections. She commissioned works by pre-eminent artists and craftsmen, and imported not only European art but its culture and skills too, and successfully established Russian academies and factories. Above all, Catherine II showed a preference for classicism at an early age. She took delight in an Antiquity that was nostalgic, decorative, and monumental. Playing with the symbolism of Imperial power, she was a modern Minerva in public, and a fervent disciple of antiquity in private.

Catherine the Great: Art for Empire

Baillio, Joseph

Shevchenko, Valery

Androsoz, Sergey

Bagdasarova, Irina

Simon Morsink is a leading dealer in ancient Russian and Greek icons, well known to private collectors and museum curators worldwide. Together with his brother Hugo he runs the internationally renowned Jan Morsink Ikonen, specializing in icons created between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The lavishly illustrated The Power of Icons presents some 50 important Greek and Russian pieces from the Morsink collection, many of which have not been documented for the public before. Introductory essays including "2000 Years of Icon Painting" describe the history and explore the meaning of icons, and discuss painting and restoration techniques--readers will be surprised by the original colors of pieces once so dirty as to be called "black panels." Contributors include Dr. Eva Haustein-Bartsch, director of the Ikonen Museum Recklinghausen, in Germany and Dr. Phaidra Kalafatis, curator of the Byzantine Museum Athens, Greece.

The Power of Icons: Russian and Greek Icons 15th-19th Century: Collection Jan Morsink

Braamhorst, Karin

Haustein-Bartsch, Eva

Kalafatis, Phaidra

Morsink, S.G.

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