Figure 1913-1942

Antonello Negri
Skira

Antonello Negri
Lyasis Edizioni

Antonello Negri
Banca Popolare di Milano

Tonino Mulas
s.e.

Paolo Bellini
Neri Pozza Editore

Germaine Greer
Thames & Hudson Ltd.

Conventional wisdom has it that in visual culture the female body, not the male, is viewed as the primary object of desire. Germaine Greer argues that until the nineteenth century the image of the female body was not drawn from life but constructed on aesthetic principles. The naked body that was instead studied and portrayed with heart-stopping immediacy in hundreds of guises, most of them to some extent erotic, some of them sadistic, is that of the boy. In exploring the iconic ideal of the beautiful boy, Germaine Greer demolishes one of the last Western taboos. With over two hundred images drawn from the whole history of Western art, illustrating the vicissitudes of the beautiful male - as toy boy, virgin soldier, naked martyr or winged genius, angel or seducer, narcissist or worshipper - they are invited to appreciate boys in all their sensuality, spontaneity and vulnerability.

Umberto Silva
Gabriele Mazzotta Editore

Laura Lazzaroni, Luca Molinari
Skira

Marzio Pinottini, Carlos Cruz-Diez
s.e.

Salvatore Santuccio, Luigi Moretti
Zanichelli Editore

Robert Lesser
Gramercy Books

The American pulp magazines of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s had some of the most colorful, exciting, and memorable covers ever to appear in print. Chock-full of action-packed, gorgeous--even shocking--color paintings, this unique volume features more than 100 rare original pieces, most from private collections.

Marco Goldin
Electa