SECRETS OF LOVE by Nigel Cawthorne
This work examines 3000 years of sexual secrets and love explored through art and literature. The pains and pleasures of love have been celebrated since the beginning of history. Literature, too - poems, plays and songs from classical times - also explore the themes of love and sex. Around the world in Mesopotamia, China, Japan, India and later Islamic and European countries, scholars and artists have explored the experience of love and making love in words and explicit image. This text explores these themes in art and literature, from all cultures through the ages to the present century. It uses a selection of visual and written sources and extracts, and examines sexual techniques and practices through time, its effect on culture, and unlocks the sexual secrets of the ancients. Beginning with artists' and poets' rhapsody and idealisation of love in their object of desire, chapters range from the anatomy of love through nudes, genitals and erogenous zones, the art of seduction, the act of love-making to the forbidden fruits of bondage, sadomasochism and orgy. 200 illustrations depict these themes, ranging from the earliest carvings and paintings BC, the wall paintings of Pompeii to the erotic caricature engravings and paintings evocative of the 19th and early 20th centuries.Nigel Cawthorne studied at University College, London, where he gained an Honours degree in Physics, before turning to writing as a career. He has been a writer and editor for over 25 years, the last 21 freelance. He has written, contributed to and edited more than sixty books, including Fighting Them On The Beaches: D-Day, 6 June 1944, The Battle of Britain, Vietnam: A War Lost and Won, Stalin, and The Story of the SS. His work has also appeared in over a hundred and fifty newspapers, magazines and partworks on both sides of the Atlantic - from the Sun to the Financial Times, and includes contributions to Nam, Eyewitness Nam and The Falklands War. Nigel also visited Vietnam with the legendary Tim Page, where he researched the material for Nam, Eyewitness Nam, and The Bamboo Cage. He is also the creator of websites on the Battle of Hastings, and Pearl Harbor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857938296 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857938291 |
| Title | SECRETS OF LOVE |
| Author | Cawthorne Nigel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1997-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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