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The extensive collection of erotic prints and lithographs presented in this book originates mainly from the France ofthe July Monarchy (1830-48). The reign of Louis Philippe, the bourgeois king, was relatively quiet and uneventful, and was marked by the ascendancy of the bourgeoisie, economic prosperity and surprisingly relaxed censorship laws. It was also the period in which the new technique of lithography,
originating in a Germany which enjoyed a less liberal cultural climate, became widespread in France. In its role as a modern and economical technique for the mass reproduction of images, lithography made art available to a large public for the first time.
These factors, along with a rather free-thinking intellectualclimate, which allowed social philosophers like Saint-Simon to acquire a substantial following, newspapers to print caustic caricatures by the likes of Daumier and artists to live an unashamedly bohemian life-style, combined to create the very atmosphere in which the erotic art collected in this book flourished.
Обширная коллекция эротических картинок и литографий, представленная в этой книге, родом из Франции времен Июльской монархии (1830-48), времен правления Луи Филиппа. В его правление цензура значительно смягчилась, а климат в целом располагал к распутности и падению нравов. Высокое качество исполнения рисунков выводит их из разряда простых эротических картинок, но фантазии художников удивят и современного любителя эротики. Работы являются частью раритетной коллекции Ганса-Юргена Дёппа.