Satirotica
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In the history of pornography, in the period of the [[Enlightenment]], [[pornography]] has been used to subvert the [[establishment]]. | In the history of pornography, in the period of the [[Enlightenment]], [[pornography]] has been used to subvert the [[establishment]]. | ||
See also Eugène le Poitevin's ''[[Les Diableries Erotiques]]''. | See also Eugène le Poitevin's ''[[Les Diableries Erotiques]]''. | ||
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- | [[Diablerie]]s are an interesting genre and illustrates 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 [[sexual humor|satirical pornography or pornographic satire]]. The genre goes back to [[Rabelais]], although his masterpiece ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' was more [[emetic]] than [[erotic]]. | ||
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- | Of course, artists such as Le Poitevin deserve a place in the [[history of derision]], a playful and benign derision that is turned toward ourselves, toward the very core of [[human nature]]. As such it is also a piece of [[toilet philosophy]]. | ||
Remarkably, the writeup on a Poitevin not depicted here in my edition of ''[[Erotic Art of the Masters the 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries Art & Artists ]]'', author and editor Bradley Smith notes | Remarkably, the writeup on a Poitevin not depicted here in my edition of ''[[Erotic Art of the Masters the 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries Art & Artists ]]'', author and editor Bradley Smith notes |
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In the history of pornography, in the period of the Enlightenment, pornography has been used to subvert the establishment. See also Eugène le Poitevin's Les Diableries Erotiques.
Remarkably, the writeup on a Poitevin not depicted here in my edition of Erotic Art of the Masters the 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries Art & Artists , 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."
This quote echoes the following by Deleuze and Guattari,
- "Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration" (A Thousand Plateaus, p. 32).
A similarly themed print is Francesco Parmigianino's A Witch Riding on a Phallus.
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