Erotica 20th Century Volume 1 : From Rodin to Picasso

by Gilles Néret

Book by Néret, Gilles

Genres: Art, Erotica, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2001

About the author

Gilles Néret (1933 - August 3, 2005) was a French art critic and historian, journalist and curator. He wrote extensively on the history of erotica.

He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L’Oeil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Elie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. Since 1992, Néret was an editor for Taschen, for which he has written catalogues raisonnés of the works of Klimt and others, as well as the author of Erotica Universalis.

Reviews

[Morgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of erotic art from famous names (Rodin, Picasso, Klimt, Wegener) and others I don't know (probably famous--I just don't know much about art). Lots of hetero couples depicted, but some same sex and group sex depicted as well. Very much in line with the Modern era of music, art, poetry, literature, etc. Parts of this is also in French, so I could read very, very little of some pages.

[Aaliyah Truong · Rating 5 out of 5]

bought this for $6 in a clearance bin

[BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful works of art, shown in a small booklet.