The Art of Arousal - Hardcover

Westheimer, Ruth K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896600807 ISBN 13: 9780896600805

Publisher: Artabras, 1997

Synopsis

This work offers instances of 100 of the most erotic paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings from diverse eras and cultures, coupled with commentaries about their sexual and aesthetic content.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is known by most children as "Dr. Ruth Wordheimer" on PBS KIDS' "Between the Lions". Dr. Westheimer is a therapist and an expert on family issues. She's also a devoted grandparent.

From Publishers Weekly:

Well-known sex therapist Westheimer here presents a provocative, richly eclectic, inspirational collection of erotic art. Chapters proceed methodically from flirtation and seduction to foreplay, the embrace, solitary and group pleasures and conclude with blissful exhaustion--a loose framework for organizing more than 100 color reproductions of works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Titian, Watteau, Durer, Manet, Courbet, Egon Schiele, David Hockney and others. The scope is multicultural, embracing Persian miniatures, a Cambodian sandstone female torso, a Dogon primordial couple from west Africa and Hopi carver Fred Koruh's interlocking male and female kachina dolls. Westheimer's exhortatory interjections on foreplay, lovemaking positions and so forth seem intrusive amidst the shrewd art-historical commentaries of her anonymous, albeit acknowledged cultural adviser. Overall, this is a delightful bedside companion.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Artabras
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0896600807
• ISBN 13: 9780896600805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180