One of the most intriguing games that poets and dreamers play with time and a sense of the self is picking a period from out of the past in which they would like to have lived. Suppose we turn this around to ask which artists or writers from out of the past would, out of all time up to the present, most want to be alive now. Thomas Rowlandson was roundly, resonantly alive. His art reveals an immense affirmation of life. And it is such vitality more than any other single quality which suggests that--if he had his choice--Rowlandson might very well want to be one of us. For an artist so acutely attuned to the pace and pulse of the world around him, as Thomas Rowlandson indeed was, the physical appearance of the modern city--whether London, Los Angeles, or Lincoln, Nebraska--would certainly be a shock.
Alexandre Dupouy is a sex archaeologist. The French collector has spent his entire life collecting what he defines as "erotic and pornographic junk. It's a sort of small museum that traces the history of sex in France. In , he received a call from a bookseller friend who said that he had an old gentleman with "something special to show him.
These works, spanning from to , contained graphic scenes that stirred public disbelief and outrage. Given the time period in which they were published, it is no surprise that these novels were received with utter shock and, in some instances, banned altogether. In addition to the graphic images contained within the novels, the characters were often seen as defying social and moral conventions.
Erotic art has in equal measure aroused and aggravated since the beginning of art history. Great artists can take advantage of this and create genuinely provocative work, work so erotic and explicit that it can as with some of the pieces in this list see feminist protestors throw acid over it, French aristocracy brandish a knife at it or end up with the artist behind it being sent to prison. Discover these and more with our top ten. An example of a work not radical in its time but seen as too explicit for later audiences, The Warren Cup was most likely proudly displayed in a Roman home, but then was considered too deviant for audiences right until the s. Depicting a Greco-Roman practice called pederasty, where young men would take older men as mentors and sexual partners, the what would later be considered homosexual acts depicted on the cup were hidden from public display for centuries before their exhibition, after which they inspired countless gay artists and writers into more radical artworks.
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