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-Anonymous [[satirical]] [[caricature]] of the Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise (1717-1757), an example of the [[Arcimboldesque]] example]] 
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-''[[Metamorphic Genitalia and Fantastical Sexual Images]]'' is a book proposal by [[Paul Rumsey]]. It features [[grotesque]], [[fantastic]], [[surreal]] and [[comic]] images from all cultures, including Roman, Japanese and right up to [[Symbolism]], [[Surrealism]], [[Crumb]], [[Ero guro]] and film.+''[[Metamorphic Genitalia and Fantastical Sexual Images]]'' is a book proposal by [[Paul Rumsey]]. It features [[Grotesque art |grotesque]], [[fantastic art|fantastic]], [[surreal]] and [[comic]] images of [[genitalia]] from all cultures, including Roman, Japanese and right up to [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]], [[Surrealism]], [[Robert Crumb]], [[ero guro]] and film.
-As these images are not of real things they are each [[sexual symbolism|symbolic]] and mean very different things, some erotic, others religious, political, comic, etc. The book would not have any images of the real human form, only those that are metamorphosed in some way...so a lot of anthropomorphic genital images. Mostly these will be phallic images, but there are a lot of vulva images also.+As these images are not of real things they are each [[sexual symbolism|symbolic]] and mean very different things, some erotic, others religious, political or comic. The book does not have any images of the real human form, only those that are metamorphosed in some way, what can be called anthropomorphic genital images. Mostly these will be phallic images, but there are a lot of vulva images also.
-The works will be classified by the type of distortion, the way they differ from reality. (a single image may have more than one method of distortion)+The works will be classified by the type of distortion, the way they differ from reality (a single image may have more than one method of distortion).
-(1) Distortion of scale, all images of men with huge phallus, enlarged beyond the possible, from Roman art, Japanese art, [[Beardsley]], [[Kubin]], [[Crumb]] etc.+==Distortion of scale==
 +All images of men with huge phallus, enlarged beyond the possible, from Greek art ([[Delos phallus]]), Roman art ([[Pompeii priapus]]), Japanese art, [[Beardsley]], [[Kubin]], [[Crumb]] etc.
-(2) Separation, the phallus seperated from the figure, carried in procession, lying on a beach (''[[Le Phallus phénoménal]]'' by [[Denon]]) etc.+*[[Adam as prima materia, pierced by the arrow of Mercurius]], from ''Miscellanea d'alchimia'', reproduced in Carl Jung's ''Psychology and Alchemy''.
-(3) Animation, the phallus bought to life as a living creature, the phallus with legs.+==Separation==
 +The genitalia seperated from the figure, carried in procession, lying on a beach (''[[A Witch Riding on a Phallus]]'', ''[[Le Phallus phénoménal]]'' by [[Vivant Denon]], ''[[The Triumph of the Phallus]]'', etc.).
 +===Phalli===
 +*[[Ex-voto anatomici]], a series of terracotta ex-votos of penises, a breasts and wombs) in a showcase at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Naples
 +*[[Hic Habitat Felicitas]], a rock carving of a phalus found in Pompeii outside of a bakery.
 +*Various [[tintinnabulum (Ancient Rome)|tintinnabula in Ancient Rome]], bronze phallic sculpture to which wind chimes were attached to protect one from jinxes and the evil eye.
 +*''[[Work 219: Landscape XX]]'' by H. R. Giger
 +*The image on the cover of ''[[Medieval Obscenities]]''
 +*[[The Old Harlot's Dream]] by [[Thomas Rowlandson]]
 +*[[King Phallus on his sickbed receiving his physicians]] by Vivant Denon
 +*[[Nanshoku (Male eros) shunga]], an anonymous shunga print, depicting two phalli as fishes.
 +*''[[Penis Parinirvana]]'' shunga
 +===Vulvae===
 +*''[[Vulva in a Box]]'' (1840) is by Utagawa Kunisada
 +*''[[The Permissive Hand]]'' by Utamaro
 +==Anthropomorphic animations==
 +The phallus bought to life as a living creature, the phallus with legs.
-*[[Droit au travail et Droit au repos]]+*[[Droit au travail et Droit au repos]] by Felicien Rops
-*[[Sakuzōzu]]+*[[Sakuzōzu]], (Phallus-Monk) is a print by Katsukawa Shunshō (1726-1792) from the Hyaku bobo gatari series.
 +*[[Such Things are or a peep into Kensington Gardens]]'' by Thomas Rowlandson
 +*[[Ne reste pas ainsi décalotté cher Baron]][http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Van_Maele_-_La_Grande_Danse_macabre_des_vifs_-_03.jpg] (Illustration from ''[[La Grande Danse macabre des vifs]]'' by [[Martin van Maële]]). English: 'Don't stay uncovered like that, dear Baron.'
 +*[[Two footed phalli stabbing each other while surrounded by two grotesque drooping masks that resemble an elongated scrotum]][http://archive.is/CMjWB] by [[Arent van Bolten]]
 +*[[Badge displaying three phalli bearing a crowned vulva in a procession]], a pilgrim badge found in Brugge.
 +*[[The Origin of Female Adoration of the Buddha]]
 +==Hybrid phallus==
 +A [[phallic bird]], or phalli with the legs of various animals etc.
-(4) Hybrid phallus, with wings, the legs of various animals etc.+*[[Purinega tien duro]], an anonymous Italian 'phallic bird' print
 +*[[Anonymous phallic birds from the Codex Atlanticus]], the informal title to a drawing glued in the Codex Atlanticus by Leonardo da Vinci.
 +*[[Un priape marchant sur des pattes de coq]] by Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville, depicting a flaccid phallus, standing on rooster's legs.
 +*[[The Lizard Phallus]], (1870), inspired by [[Poitevin]], depicting a lizard-like creature with the head of phallus and two forelegs.
 +*[[Phallus bird creature (Poitevin)]], depicting a blindfolded putto riding a phallic bird creature.
-(5) Multiplied, the phallic creature with more than one head, (phallic Hydra), or with a phallus of its own. Also multiple breasts.+==Multiplied==
 +The phallic creature with more than one head, (phallic Hydra), or with a phallus of its own. Also multiple breasts.
-(6) Substitution or replacement, the phallus in place of nose, horns, tail, or replacing an object in the world, like an arrow, spear, missile, etc.+*[[Artemis of Ephesus]], a "multiple breast" cult statue in the honor of the fertility goddess Artemis.
 +==Substitution, displacement or replacement==
 +The phallus in place of nose, horns, tail, or replacing an object in the world, like an arrow, spear, missile, etc.
 +*[[Cupid riding a winged pig with phallus-shaped nose]] by Félicien Rops
 +*[[The Hell of Great Heat]] by Japanese artist Kunisada or Toyokuni, depicting a number of vulva-headed women devouring one of their former lovers.
 +*[[Manpuku Wagojin]] (The Gods of Intercourse c.1821), depicting a pair of lovers whose facial features have been replaced by a phallus and a vulva.
 +*[[Vulvic face, phallic head]], informal title to three grotesque shunga of an amorous couple with switched faces/genitalia, from ''Shunshoku hatsune no ume'' (1842), written by Tamenaga Shunsui and illustrated by Utagawa Kunisada.
 +*[[The baubo statuettes from Priene]], which represent the female body as the face conflated with the lower part of the abdomen
 +*[[The Rape (René Magritte)]], depicting a faceless woman --her face is replaced by her torso.
 +*[[Soter Kosmoi]], a bronze bust of a human torso with the head of a rooster. Au lieu of a nose or beak, the rooster features a large erect phallus.
-(7) Compilation, those [[Arcimboldo]] type heads etc.+==Arcimboldesque compilation or composition==
 +[[Arcimboldesque]] heads etc.
-(8) Projection, the world takes on a sexual form, landscape like a giant woman, [[Hogarth's cottage]], [[Masson]] drawings, etc.+*The cover of ''[[Histoire du prince Apprius]]'' by Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps, which depicts a face consisting of disembodied phalli.
 +*[[Anonymous satirical caricature of the Cardinal Armand de Rohan-Soubise]], a face consisting of nude women and phalli.
 +*[[Testa di cazzi]] by [[Francisco Urbini]], a plate painted with a head made out of phalli arranged in an Arcimboldesque manner.
 +*[[Le grand vainqueur: Anonymous caricature of Napoleon]]
 +*[[L'inspecteur de la brigade des moeurs et coutumes]] (Inspector of the Vice Brigade), a 1946 drawing by Hans Bellmer. ([[Arcimboldesque]])
 + 
 +==Projection==
 +The world takes on a sexual form, landscape like a giant woman, [[Hogarth's cottage]], [[André Masson]]'s ''[[Terre érotique]]'' for ''L'Origine du monde'' (and other 'terres érotiques').
 + 
 +==In text==
 +*[[Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration]], a dictum by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari.
 +*[[User:Jahsonic/Man is "concrete sexual desire" (konkreter Geschlechtstrieb)]], a dictum by Arthur Schopenhauer found in ''The World as Will and Representation''.
 +*[[User:Jahsonic/A basket full of phalluses|A basket full of phalluses]], a passage from the medieval treatise on witches, ''Malleus Maleficarum''.
 +*[[e sarò cazzo, e voi sarete potta]], a line of poetry from the fifth sonnet of the ''Sonetti lussuriosi'' by Pietro Aretino. It is an allegory of becoming genitals.
 +*[[How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris]], ini ''Gargantua and Panagruel'', repetition (or multiplication) of vulvae to rebuild the city walls of Paris.
 +*''[[Les Aventures de Jean-Foutre La Bite]]'' (1986) by Louis Aragon
 +*"[[La plus belle paire de seins du monde (Roland Topor short story)|La plus belle paire de seins du monde]]" (English: The Most Beautiful Breasts in the World) (1986) by Roland Topor
 + 
 +==To be classified==
 +*[[L'Arétin français]] frontispiece by François-Rolland Elluin after drawings by Antoine Borel
 +*''[[Erotische Grotesken]]'', album by Pipifax, twelve aquarelled etchings (c. 1920)
 +*[[Auricular style]]
 +*[[Hrací karty]][http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YmElDUWfHgc/UHeim76BD5I/AAAAAAAAFxQ/V7hieI6R82I/s1600/01-artus_scheiner_fairy-tales-02.jpg] (Playing Card) from ''[[Pohádky Pro Dospělé]]'' (1925, English: '''Fairy Tales for Adults'''), illustrated by [[Artuš Scheiner]].
==See also== ==See also==
 +*[[Belly face]]
*[[User:Jahsonic/Grotesque shunga]] *[[User:Jahsonic/Grotesque shunga]]
*[[Independent_body_parts#Genitalia]] *[[Independent_body_parts#Genitalia]]
 +*[[Talking body part]]
 +**[[Anus loquens]]
 +**[[Mentula loquens]]
 +**[[Vulva loquens]]
 +*[[Satirotica]]
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Metamorphic Genitalia and Fantastical Sexual Images is a book proposal by Paul Rumsey. It features grotesque, fantastic, surreal and comic images of genitalia from all cultures, including Roman, Japanese and right up to Symbolism, Surrealism, Robert Crumb, ero guro and film.

As these images are not of real things they are each symbolic and mean very different things, some erotic, others religious, political or comic. The book does not have any images of the real human form, only those that are metamorphosed in some way, what can be called anthropomorphic genital images. Mostly these will be phallic images, but there are a lot of vulva images also.

The works will be classified by the type of distortion, the way they differ from reality (a single image may have more than one method of distortion).

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Distortion of scale

All images of men with huge phallus, enlarged beyond the possible, from Greek art (Delos phallus), Roman art (Pompeii priapus), Japanese art, Beardsley, Kubin, Crumb etc.

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Separation

The genitalia seperated from the figure, carried in procession, lying on a beach (A Witch Riding on a Phallus, Le Phallus phénoménal by Vivant Denon, The Triumph of the Phallus, etc.).

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Phalli

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Vulvae

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Anthropomorphic animations

The phallus bought to life as a living creature, the phallus with legs.

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Hybrid phallus

A phallic bird, or phalli with the legs of various animals etc.

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Multiplied

The phallic creature with more than one head, (phallic Hydra), or with a phallus of its own. Also multiple breasts.

  • Artemis of Ephesus, a "multiple breast" cult statue in the honor of the fertility goddess Artemis.
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Substitution, displacement or replacement

The phallus in place of nose, horns, tail, or replacing an object in the world, like an arrow, spear, missile, etc.

  • Cupid riding a winged pig with phallus-shaped nose by Félicien Rops
  • The Hell of Great Heat by Japanese artist Kunisada or Toyokuni, depicting a number of vulva-headed women devouring one of their former lovers.
  • Manpuku Wagojin (The Gods of Intercourse c.1821), depicting a pair of lovers whose facial features have been replaced by a phallus and a vulva.
  • Vulvic face, phallic head, informal title to three grotesque shunga of an amorous couple with switched faces/genitalia, from Shunshoku hatsune no ume (1842), written by Tamenaga Shunsui and illustrated by Utagawa Kunisada.
  • The baubo statuettes from Priene, which represent the female body as the face conflated with the lower part of the abdomen
  • The Rape (René Magritte), depicting a faceless woman --her face is replaced by her torso.
  • Soter Kosmoi, a bronze bust of a human torso with the head of a rooster. Au lieu of a nose or beak, the rooster features a large erect phallus.
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Arcimboldesque compilation or composition

Arcimboldesque heads etc.

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Projection

The world takes on a sexual form, landscape like a giant woman, Hogarth's cottage, André Masson's Terre érotique for L'Origine du monde (and other 'terres érotiques').

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In text

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To be classified

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See also




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