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20th century, erotica

New media in the 20th century started erotic films, a continuation of erotic photography, and the rise of erotic postcards and pinups.

Contents 1 20th century (1900-1944) 1.1 Literature 1.2 Theory 1.3 Cinema 1.4 Photography 2 20th century (1945-1970) 2.1 Visual art 2.1.1 Works 2.2 Literature 2.2.1 Events 2.3 Film 2.4 Photography 2.5 Theory 3 20th century (1971-2006) 4 1930s 5 1940s 6 1970s 7 See also

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, Bruno Schulz,

Theory

Iwan Bloch, Eduard Fuchs, Magnus Hirschfeld.

Cinema

Erich von Stroheim

Photography

• Woman with Claws (1937) by Paul Outerbridge
• Automne by Man Ray
• The Prayer by Man Ray
• Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream by 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.
• Untitled (masked woman on couch) by Bellocq
• Two girls with derrieres in mirror (c. 1930) [1] by Grundworth.

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.

Works

• Student (Studentin) (1967) by Gerhard Richter
• Nude with Snail Breasts[2] (1967) by Salvador Dalí

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.

Events

• Lady Chatterley's Lover British obscenity trial (1960)
• Fanny Hill obscenity trial (1963)

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 (1971-2006)

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, Dusan Makavejev, François Ozon, Roman Polanski, Alex de Renzy, Nicolas Roeg, Jean Rollin, Ken Russell, Lars von Trier.

1930s

• 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.
• Dr Riegler and J Greno, Munich
• Emilie comes to me in a dream, 1931, Published as part of his "Edition 69" series.

1940s

• Mr et M Woodman[3], par Man Ray, 1947

1970s

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

See also

• 20th century French erotica
• 19th century erotica