History of erotic art
Erotic comics, Japanese or Western: two cultures, two ways of depicting the body
On one side, magazines with several hundred pages where anything goes... except drawing a sex. On the other, albums by authors shown face up, but hidden under the counter of the bookseller. A comparative tour of illustrated eroticism, from manga to underground...
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Erotic comics or pornography: where does the artistic boundary really lie?
A century of drawn nudes, censorship and misunderstandings: here are the concrete criteria that separate an erotic comic from a pornographic booklet, with examples and historical references to support.
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History of erotic comics: from the censors of 1949 to the great return to bookstores
Barbarella banned, Elvifrance plagued by decrees, Pichard withdrawn from sales... then the awakening of the 2000s: here is the complete chronology of a European genre long treated as a pariah.
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