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Product Details (as of 9 September 2006) Title: Women Bookplates and Eros Author: Michel Froidevaux Hardcover: 95 pages Publisher: Association Pro Ex-libris & Éditions Humus (Nyon, August 2006) Language: English and French ISBN: 978-2-9700535-2-1 |
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Women Bookplates and Eros
(by G.N.)
It is the first book dedicated to ex-eroticis by women artists.
There are the reproductions of 64 ex libris.
With an essay by Carolina Liebling, of the Fondation Claude Verdan, Lausanne
The twelve women artists featured are (in alphabetical order):
Natalija Cernetsova
Carla Di Pancrazio
Muriel Frega
Hanna T. Glowacka
Alexandra von Hellberg
Elena Kiseleva
Elly de Koster
Patricia Nik-Dad
Elzbieta Radzikowska
Lynn Paula Russell
Helga Schroth
Elfriede Weidenhaus
This publication was prepared in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Humus Gallery, Lausanne, for the XXXIst Congress of the International Federation of Ex-libris Societies (FISAE), Nyon, August 2006.
(from
the book's slip)
During centuries, eroticism remained a subject on which only men
could express themselves. In recent decades, women have regained
a field of which they were often merely objects.
“Woman and eros” opens with an original study on erotic
art by the art historian Carolina Liebling, followed by a choice
of erotic bookplates created by twelve women artists, accompanied
by biographies and personal point of view on eroticism.
Preface
by Michel Froidevaux, Curator of the exhibition “Women
and Eros”
For ages, if not since the dawn of time, only men – males
– have had the right to deal publicly with sex.
In the last forty years, with the evolution of customs and the regression
of machismo, women have al last been allowed to express themselves.
To start saying things about sex, to reveal intimate secrets, to
immerse themselves in desire-pleasure, to imagine uneasy episodes,
to invent voluptuous practices…
One maintains that women are more attached to sentiments, more receptive to interior excitement, whereas men are perhaps more mechanical, more sensitive to external signals… In any case, the relation with time is different, with the rhythm of menstruation and a more limited fertility span.
Differences exist. No doubt. But if sex is physiological, eroticism is cultural. And in this field, the imaginary is shared fairly. Thus possibilities appeared, when at last woman became the subject rather than the object of eroticism.
In this book and the exhibition which it is linked to, twelve women print-makers give us their visions of carnal love. In these early years of the second millennium, their images form a cosmopolitan panorama, even if only partial, of feminine creativity in the intimate format of bookplates.
In many other parts of the world, still cluttered with repressive gods, such a serene, intense and free manifestation of feminine eroticism would be unthinkable and at once forbidden. Obviously, there are still many naughty milestones to be passed before in both masculine and feminine terms, “beauty is convulsive”…
© 2006 Association Pro Ex-libris & Éditions Humus
(Disclosure: Artifex got from Natalija Cernetsova a free copy of the book)
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