20th century erotica  

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New media in the 20th century saw the rise of erotic films and of erotic postcards and pinups. There was a continuation of erotic photography.

20th century (1900-1944)

Literature

Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Bataille, James Joyce, Jack Kahane, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Pierre Louÿs.

Visual arts

Franz von Bayros, Egon Schiele, Balthus, Martin van Maële and Bruno Schulz.

Theory

Iwan Bloch, Eduard Fuchs, Magnus Hirschfeld.

Cinema

Erich von Stroheim

Photography

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• Untitled (masked woman on couch) (c. 1912) by Bellocq
• Printemps, Eté, Automne, Hiver (1929) by Man Ray
• The Prayer (1930) by Man Ray
• Two girls with derrieres in mirror (c. 1930) [1] by Grundworth.
• Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream (1933) by Jindřich Štyrský
• Érotique voilée (1933) is a series of photos by Man Ray portrayinig a nude woman (Méret Oppenheim) interacting with a printing press.
• Woman with Claws (1937) by Paul Outerbridge
• Scène de meurtre (Gaston Paris) (c. 1935)

20th century (1945-1970)

mid-20th century

leading up to and ending with the sexual revolution

Visual art

Hans Bellmer, Clovis Trouille, Roland Topor, Georges Pichard, Otto Mühl.

Literature

Jean de Berg, Jean Genet, Maurice Girodias, Eric Losfeld, J.M. Lo Duca, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Anais Nin, Alexander Trocchi, John Willie, Barney Rosset, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Alberto Moravia.

Film

José Bénazéraf, Tinto Brass, Luis Buñuel, Jess Franco, Alfred Hitchcock, Russ Meyer, Radley Metzger, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Max Pécas, Roger Vadim.

Photography

Pierre Molinier, Carlo Mollino, Irving Klaw.

Theory

Alfred Charles Kinsey, Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, Herbert Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich.

20th century (1971 - )

Literature

Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Pauline Réage, Anne Rice.

Theory

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Jay Gertzman, Michel Foucault, Patrick J. Kearney, Steven Marcus, Peter Mendes, Camille Paglia, Colin Wilson.

Visual arts

Trevor Brown, Guido Crepax, Yoshifumi Hayashi, Allen Jones, Tanino Liberatore, Milo Manara, Modesto Roldan, Romain Slocombe, Hajime Sorayama, Eric Stanton, Sheryl Straight, Leone Frollo.

Photography

Nobuyoshi Araki, Gilles Berquet, Guy Bourdin, David Hamilton, Richard Kern, Eric Kroll, Mirka Lugosi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton.

Cinema

Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, Walerian Borowczyk, Catherine Breillat, David Cronenberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Juzo Itami, Stanley Kubrick, Dušan Makavejev, François Ozon, Roman Polanski, Alex de Renzy, Nicolas Roeg, Jean Rollin, Ken Russell, Lars von Trier.

Timeline

1900s

1900s

• The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
• Sexual Inversion (1901) by Havelock Ellis
• Judith I, 1901 - Gustav Klimt
• La Marchande de Plaisir (1902) by Hermann Vogel
• Todessprung[2] (1902) by Kubin.
• Neue Forschungen über den Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit (1904) by Iwan Bloch
• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
• The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch (1907)
• Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) - Pablo Picasso
• Female nude draped in a blue veil
• Hell (1908) - Henri Barbusse
• Vintage photograph of a nude woman and vegetables
• Three Women and a Little Girl Playing in the Water (1907) by Félix Vallotton.

1910s

1910s

• Olympia (Marcel Meys photograph)
• "The Naked and the Nude ( Walter Sickert)", essay by Walter Sickert
• Nana, Female Nude[3] (1911) is painting by Lovis Corinth
• Girl Seen in a Dream[4] (1911, Die Traumbeschaute) is a watercolor painting by Egon Schiele.
• Standing Woman in Red[5] (1913, Stehende Frau in Rot) is a work by Egon Schiele (1890–1918).
• A Fool There Was (1915) - Frank Powell
• Portrait of an American Girl in the Nude (1915), drawing by French artist Francis Picabia
• Lebensfreude/Kriegskinder (1915)[6] by Otto Greiner
• Two prostitutes in a brothel of Algeria, photo by Roger-Viollet/Alinari 1910 ca.
• Frau bei der Selbstbefriedigung (1916) by Gustav Klimt
• Fernande by Jean Agélou
• Handbuch der gesamten Sexualwissenschaft in Einzeldarstellungen (1912 - 1925, Handbook of Sexology in its Entirety Presented in Separate Studies) - Iwan Bloch

1920s

1920s

• Adam and Eve (1924) Marcel Duchamp and Bronja Perlmutter
• Madeleine, Monologue et 9 dessins by Adolphe Willette

1930s

• À propos de Nice by Jean Vigo, nude dissolve scene
• Nu au squelette (c. 1930, Nude with Skeleton) is a photo by Ergy Landau.

• Emilie comes to me in a dream, 1931, Published as part of his "Edition 69" series.
• Dr Riegler and J Greno, Munich (1933)
• Nude (Charis, Santa Monica) (1936) by Edward Weston is one of the most famous nude photos. It is one of the pictures that gave photography its status as a producer of art nudes.

1940s

• Mr et M Woodman[7], par Man Ray, 1947
• Wayward Landscape (1946) by Duchamp
• Please Touch, 1947, by Duchamp

1950s

• La vulve-phallus, a drawing by Hans Bellmer

1960s

1960s art, 1960s literature, pop art eroticism

• Lady Chatterley's Lover British obscenity trial (1960)
• Great American Nude series by Tom Wesselmann, begun in 1961
• Fanny Hill obscenity trial (1963)
• Eros Denied (1964) by Wayland Young
• Erotic art 66 exhibition
• Hon - en katedral (1966, She - a Cathedral) by Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Per Olov Ultvedt
• Student (Studentin) (1967) by Gerhard Richter
• Chelsea Girls (1968), Alan Aldridge poster
• Nude with Snail Breasts[8] (1967) by Salvador Dalí
• The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art (1968)
• Chair, Table and Hat Stand (1969) by Allen Jones
• Étant donnés by Marcel Duchamp exhibited to the public for the first time

1970s

• Fine Lines (1977) is a photo book by John Swannell.
• Start of the porno chic era in cinema

See also

20th century art, 20th century literature, erotica

• 20th century French erotica
• 19th century erotica