Diableries érotiques
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| - | :''[[diablerie]], [[French erotica]] '' | + | '''''Diableries érotiques''''' (English: erotic devilries) is the title given to a series of [[lithograph]]s by French artist [[Eugène le Poitevin]], depicting [[devil]]s and other diabolic creatures playing various [[trick]]s on [[young girl]]s. |
| - | '''''Les diableries érotiques''''' are a series of [[lithograph]]s by French artist [[Eugène le Poitevin]], depicting [[devil]]s and other diabolic creatures playing various [[trick]]s on [[young girl]]s. They date from circa [[1830s]]. | + | |
| - | Poitevin's ''Diableries'' illustrate how -- before the "invention" of erotica and pornography -- [[body part]]s and the people possessing them were used for subversive purposes, here as a form of [[satirical pornography or pornographic satire]]. The genre goes back to [[Rabelais]], although his masterpiece ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' was more [[emetic]] than [[erotic]]. | + | The first album of these lithographs was entitled ''Les diables de lithographies!'' (1832, English: Devilish lithographs): |
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| + | :"The album, co-published in Paris by chez [[Aumont]] and in London by [[Charles Tilt]], contains eighty illustrations on twelve black and white numbered lithographed plates, with two supplemental plates (Petits sujets des diableries manquent le plus souvent, nos. 19 and 26: Paris / London: chez Aubert / Charles Tilt, 1832) containing thirty-five illustrations; a total of fourteen plates with 115 illustrations."[http://www.booktryst.com/2013/07/the-devil-made-le-poitevin-do-it.html] | ||
| - | There is a [[1971]] edition of 47 pages with a preface by [[Roland Villeneuve]], published by [[Éditions du Manoir]] in [[1971]]. | + | ==Reception== |
| - | [[Gérard Nordmann]] possessed a set of prints at the time of his death. | + | :"Upon its publication, ''Les Diables de Lithographies'' was hugely popular, a sensational success that became en vogue, so much so that demand for further "devilries" became enormous. Le Poitevin quickly followed with ''[[Les diableries érotiques]]''; ''[[Petits sujets des diableries]]''; ''[[Bizarreries diaboliques]]''; and ''[[Encore des Diableries]]''. [[Aimé de Bayalos|A. de Bayalos]]'s ''[[Diablotins]]'' and Michel Delaporte's ''[[Récréations diabolico-fantasmagoriques]]'' continued in the genre that Le Poitevin established." |
| - | ==List of prints== | + | |
| - | *One at the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poitevin_Diableries_Erotiques_Warsaw.JPG#filehistory] | + | |
| - | *[[Phallus bird creature (Poitevin)|Phallus bird creature]][http://jahsonic.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/french-erotica-and-icon-of-erotic-art-42/] | + | |
| ==Penises and vaginas fly through the air == | ==Penises and vaginas fly through the air == | ||
| Remarkably, the write-up on [[Eugène le Poitevin]] in ''[[Erotic Art of the Masters the 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries Art & Artists ]]'' (1974) by author and editor [[Bradley Smith]] notes: | Remarkably, the write-up on [[Eugène le Poitevin]] in ''[[Erotic Art of the Masters the 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries Art & Artists ]]'' (1974) by author and editor [[Bradley Smith]] notes: | ||
| - | :"penises and vaginas fly through the air fly through the air like butterflies, are gathered in baskets and, personified, play games with adults and children." | + | :"penises and vaginas fly through the air like butterflies, are gathered in baskets and, personified, play games with adults and children." |
| This quote echoes the following by Deleuze and Guattari, | This quote echoes the following by Deleuze and Guattari, | ||
| :"[[Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration]]" (''[[A Thousand Plateaus]]'', 1980, p. 32). | :"[[Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration]]" (''[[A Thousand Plateaus]]'', 1980, p. 32). | ||
| + | ==List of prints== | ||
| + | *One at the [[Erotic Museum in Warsaw]][http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poitevin_Diableries_Erotiques_Warsaw.JPG#filehistory] | ||
| + | *[[Phallus bird creature (Poitevin)|Phallus bird creature]][http://blog.jahsonic.com/french-erotica-and-icon-of-erotic-art-42/] | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Diablerie]] | ||
| + | *[[French erotica]] | ||
| *[[Metamorphic genitalia]] | *[[Metamorphic genitalia]] | ||
| {{GFDL}} | {{GFDL}} | ||
| [[Category:Icons of erotic art]] | [[Category:Icons of erotic art]] | ||
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Diableries érotiques (English: erotic devilries) is the title given to a series of lithographs by French artist Eugène le Poitevin, depicting devils and other diabolic creatures playing various tricks on young girls.
The first album of these lithographs was entitled Les diables de lithographies! (1832, English: Devilish lithographs):
- "The album, co-published in Paris by chez Aumont and in London by Charles Tilt, contains eighty illustrations on twelve black and white numbered lithographed plates, with two supplemental plates (Petits sujets des diableries manquent le plus souvent, nos. 19 and 26: Paris / London: chez Aubert / Charles Tilt, 1832) containing thirty-five illustrations; a total of fourteen plates with 115 illustrations."[1]
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Reception
- "Upon its publication, Les Diables de Lithographies was hugely popular, a sensational success that became en vogue, so much so that demand for further "devilries" became enormous. Le Poitevin quickly followed with Les diableries érotiques; Petits sujets des diableries; Bizarreries diaboliques; and Encore des Diableries. A. de Bayalos's Diablotins and Michel Delaporte's Récréations diabolico-fantasmagoriques continued in the genre that Le Poitevin established."
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Penises and vaginas fly through the air
Remarkably, the write-up on Eugène le Poitevin in Erotic Art of the Masters the 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries Art & Artists (1974) by author and editor Bradley Smith notes:
- "penises and vaginas fly through the air like butterflies, are gathered in baskets and, personified, play games with adults and children."
This quote echoes the following by Deleuze and Guattari,
- "Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration" (A Thousand Plateaus, 1980, p. 32).
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List of prints
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See also
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