The Art of Arousal
by Ruth K. Westheimer
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"Erotic encounters have been celebrated by artists from the beginning of time. Their insatiable fascination with the subject is celebrated in this irresistible volume, in which 120 of the most engagingly erotic paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings from diverse eras and cultures are coupled with revealing commentaries about their sexual and aesthetic content." "Organized unlike any other collection of erotic images, The Art of Arousal traces the course of a sensual relationship. It show more begins with the elements of eroticism, then progresses from flirtation and seduction through kisses and other foreplay before ultimately arriving at consummation and blissful exhaustion. The irrepressible Dr. Ruth explores every element of sexuality in these provocative works of art, including the pleasures of looking, creative fantasizing, and the effects on male and female pleasure of the various positions depicted." "All the works in this book have been chosen to meet two essential criteria: everyone portrayed must be having a good time, and each image must satisfy the high aesthetic standards of Dr. Ruth and an art historian-friend, who writes with witty scholarship about the artistic and biographical aspects of these remarkable images. Arousal and erudition intertwine to make this a uniquely pleasurable volume to look at and to read. It's a book with something for everyone."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved show lessTags
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Ruth K. Westheimer, 1928 - Ruth K. Westheimer was born in Germany in 1928, she went to a school in Switzerland at the age of 10, which became an orphanage for most of the German/Jewish students sent there. At 16 she went to Israel where she fought for that country's independence as member of the Haganah. She then moved to Paris where she studied show more psychology at the Sorbonne and taught kindergarten. Westheimer immigrated to the U.S. in 1956, where she received her Masters degree in Sociology and her Doctorate in Education from Columbia University. She studied human sexuality with Dr. Helen Singer-Kaplan at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center. Dr. Westheimer is a pioneer in "sexual literacy." She has twice been named "College Lecturer of the Year." Westheimer is a Psychosexual Therapist who helped pioneer the field of Media Psychology with her radio program "Sexually Speaking" which began in September, 1980 . "The Dr. Ruth Show," which aired on the Lifetime channel, has been syndicated nationally and internationally. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The Art of Arousal
- Original publication date
- 1993
- First words
- Most of the images in this book show two or more people engaged in a sexual encounter.
- Quotations
- Let his left hand be under my head and the right hand embrace me.... that ye awake not nor stir up love until it please.
Song of Songs 2:6-7 - Original language
- English US
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