SEX (FRENCH EDITION)

Madonna

Published by Vade Retro, Paris, France, 1992

About this Item

IN FRENCH. Folio, 13.75 in. x 11.25 in. Unpaginated. Text in French. Illustrated with color and black and white erotic photographs by Steve Meisel. Aluminum die-cut spiral-bound covers with title etched to front. Bound-in comic section. Enclosed CD in unopened publisher's foil pouch. Original mylar/foil envelope enclosed, with scissor cut down right side. Two inch closed tear and several horizontal creases to mylar envelope. From a 1992 Newsweek article reviewing the book: "What if Madonna gave a sexual bonfire and nobody came? In the quiet before the inevitable storm a few weeks back, NEWSWEEK asked Madonna about the possibility of failure or, more grievous, inconsequence. What if she released "Sex" her explicit coffee-table book of erotic photos and writings, celebrating sadomasochism, homosexuality, exhibitionism and other pansexual delights-and the public merely yawned? "If everybody yawned," she said, armed for this and other contingencies, "I d say hooray. That means something happened." "It was one of those neat identity makeovers for which Madonna is justly renowned. A deft little way to make some money and grab some spotlight, "Sex" . promised our first barometric reading of a turbulence boiling in American culture. Call it the new voyeurism: the middlebrow embrace, in the age of AIDS, of explicit erotic material for its own sake. From Mapplethorpe to MTV, from the Fox network to fashion advertising, looking at sex is creeping out of the private sphere and into the public, gentrified by artsy pretension and de-stigmatized out of viral necessity. Canny marketers exploit it; alarmed conservatives, joined by many feminists, are trying to shut it down. In many ways, as Pat Buchanan asserted at the Republican convention in August, there really is a cultural war going on. "Sex" stood to claim the battlefield. Advance cover stories on the book inVanity Fair, VogueandNew York Magazineheralded hot like you ve never seen before.". Seller Inventory # 87704

Bibliographic Details

Title: SEX (FRENCH EDITION)

Publisher: Vade Retro, Paris, France

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Spiral-bound

Condition: Near Fine / Very Good

Edition: Second Impression.