Roy Stuart: Volume 5 (v. 5) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Francois Louvard, Lazlo Hamlin, Franois / Hamlin Louvard
Creators: Dian Hanson, Roy Stuart
Publisher: Taschen
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 30883
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/DVD Mu
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 9.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 3822845019
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9783822845011
ASIN: 3822845019
Publication Date: August 14, 2008
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Product Description
Beyond voyeurism: exploring the female body, attitudes, instincts, and dreams PIn the 20th century, when pornography made its debut in the film world with its aura of improvisation and amateurishness, it had a caustic challenging quality, a freshness and a natural authenticity. By becoming industrialized and codified, it then let itself be confined in the twofold ghetto of distribution and its related rituals, churning out a pantomime of crude, unexciting, formatted images. Eroticism has always had "better press," especially since it has often been "involved" with literature and great authors have laid sacrifices on its altar. However, limited by censorship, above all self-censorship, to a restrictive representation of sex, it sentenced itself to insipidness and self-mutilation, believing it could find a way out in vain, repetitive sophistication, paradoxically proving, much to the satisfaction of moralists, that since monotony is always born out of uniformity, prefabricated pornography and eroticism have become, and remain boring. PThis realization inspires an artist like Roy Stuart. Taking advantage of Western society's relative freedom, he has investigated the use that can be made of this dilemma. A photographer and film-maker, switching from printed to moving image, he seeks to liberate the image from its final taboos, to escape the conventional representation of sex. But, more than anything else, he has an artistic project, eroticism and beyond voyeurism, he strives to explore the female body, attitudes, instincts, and dreams.
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Is it Art? January 1, 2009
My lady asked whether this was art or pornography. My answer is YES. It is both. Not great porn. but great photography and definitely art.br /
A Beautiful Sexual Explosion! December 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is Stuart's fifth book from Taschen and the common denominator throughout is Stuart's powerful, unique, erotic style. This collection of stills also includes a DVD that chronicles the action. This is striking because the photographs are not random snapshots but appear to follow the sexual encounters as their play out. And though the live action is spectacular .. the photographs are electrifying. The locations, wardrobe, makeup, and especially the flawless beauty of the models themselves give the work a forbidden quality - like a Vogue photoshoot gone wrong, where the models suddenly gave into their desires and started to grab and claw and ravish each other. Through Stuart's camera we are allowed witness to each chaotic, sexual explosion. It's the ultimate voyeur experience.br /
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