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French Popular Lithographic Imagery, 1815-1870, Volume 11: Pinups and Erotica (Hardcover)

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The "French Popular Lithographic Imagery, 1815-1870"series reproduces in twelve volumes approximately 5000 nineteenth-century lithographs from the collections of the Bibliotheque nationale.
In "Volume 11: Pinups and Erotica," Beatrice Farwell has collected more than three hundred lithographs showing women as passive, erotic objects. Inexpensive and ephemeral, these "sujets gracieux" decorated the walls of brothels and were sold to a large bachelor market free from the strictures of family values. While numerous fantasies from this genre have been enshrined in modernist painting, Professor Farwell's effort to catalog everyday representations demonstrates the large degree to which these powerful images circulated in popular culture.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780226690223
ISBN-10: 0226690229
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: December 15th, 1995
Pages: 78
Language: English
Series: French Popular Lithographic Imagery