The Libertine: The Art of Love in Eighteenth-Century France - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0789211475 ISBN 13: 9780789211477

Verlag: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., 2013

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Praise for The Libertine "Delon's anthology...display[s] the dazzling breadth and depth of the 18th-century obsession with pleasures of the flesh. Certainly The Libertine is as lavish--with its sumptuous illustrations of luscious Rococo nudes and other toothsome lovelies--as an 18th-century bal masque. But Delon's analogy understates the dizzying diversity of the ball's invitees. Priapic peasants, depraved duchesses, masked miscreants, sexy sylphs, coy mistresses, foot fetishists, human sofas (!) and a surprising abundance of naughty nuns: These raunchy revelers engage in one decadent mating dance after another, tirelessly chasing "it," and gamely explaining why it matters." --The New York Times "Highly recommended for sophisticated readers, art historians, and Francophiles." --Library Journal "The most seductive book published this year. A boudoir coffee-table book that will put your guests in the proper frame of mind." --Playboy "This work is a masterpiece." -- Point De Vue "The eighteenth century seems to flirt everywhere: in salons, boudoirs, forests; on screens, earthenware, and fans; and the bodies are posed at the reader's disposal. Delectable." -- La Monde "Prepare to be seduced by The Libertine, a swoon-worthy tome that celebrates the French practice of amour. A parade of frolicking lovers gorgeously reproduced." --Newsday, holiday gift guide selection

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A delightfully illustrated literary anthology that explores the fantasies, seductions, and intrigues of the eighteenth-century French lover This sumptuous volume presents more than eighty selections from eighteenth-century French literature, each concerning some facet of the game of love as practiced by the libertine, or the freethinking aristocratic hedonist, a type that flourished--not least in literature--in the declining years of the Ancien Regime. These pieces, which include fiction, drama, verse, essays, and letters, are the work of some sixty writers, both familiar--such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and, of course, the Marquis de Sade--and lesser-known. Each selection is illustrated by well-chosen period artworks, many rarely seen, by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and numerous others. Racy, thought-provoking, and a treat for the eyes, The Libertine is the perfect gift for litterateurs, art lovers, roues, and coquettes.

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• Verlag: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0789211475
• ISBN 13: 9780789211477
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
• Herausgeber: Delon Michel