Gilles Neret - Erotica Universalis - 2013

Wrongly hidden in museum safes or censored archives, the sensual works in Erotica Universalis finally emerge from the underworld as a feast for the imagination and a delight for the eye! This compendium of erotic arts travels through history, from Ancient Egypt to Ovid, Aretino to Dalí, to bring you the fantasies, obsessions and pure libido of writers and artists through the ages.

From the beginning of time, since Adam and Eve, all artists of all times – whether the Egyptian, Greek or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent celebrities such as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso – have surrendered to their fantasies, obsessions and libido and produced erotic works that the censors have carefully kept hidden from the public.

For Erotica Universalis we emerge from the underworld of the museums to enter our national and private libraries. Here we discover that not only did most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire, Verlaine or Maupassant, write erotic texts that bordered on indecency, but also that great artists such as Boucher, Fragonard, Dalí or Matisse were inspired to create suitable illustrations for these naughty books. For this new hardcover edition of the classic bestseller from 1995 we have selected highlights from our Erotica Universalis collection.

Condition: good.