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    Ecstasy
    Ecstasy
    Ecstasy
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    Ecstasy

    By Hans-Jürgen Döpp

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    The climax to the act of love casts an indefinable expression on the face – an expression of urgent intensity. A woman, a man, in that moment experiences an ecstasy that for an instant is visible in the eyes and on the lips. A wave of pleasure runs through the body, marking the transition between desire and orgasm. For this fleeting second, when just how violent the senses can be is laid bare, the person involved is not the same as the person immediately before or the person immediately after. With the help of prints and etchings from former centuries, author Hans-Jürgen Döpp looks for an explanation of this very personal mystery that leads to fulfilment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateJul 15, 2019
    ISBN9781644618929
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    • 4/5
      This is one of a series of medium-length essays written by Döpp and later published by Parkstone Press in larger format, under the title 'Erotic Fantasy' (2006). Each essay is copiously (and gloriously) illustrated in excellent colour with examples of erotic art which complement the writing, actually overtaking the words in the conveyance of the message. The volume entitled 'Ecstasy' paints its subject broadly, covering a considerable compass of the ecstatic experience of erotic involvement. The series itself is an excellent contribution to the understanding of erotic art, and this particular volume is well up to the standard set. Overall, Döpp adds considerably to the study of erotica.
    • 2/5
      Not my thing; a survey of various european philosopher's views of what beauty is, and of course by beauty they mean sexualized beauty. It's mostly about form. It's mostly about white beauty; to the author's credit, there are some Indian and Japanese paintings included.

      Might make a nice coffee-table book and might be interesting to classic art historians or people who like big sexualized words with a peppering of french terminology.

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    Ecstasy - Hans-Jürgen Döpp

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    No part of this publication may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world. Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers, artists, heirs or estates. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

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    Hans-Jürgen Döpp

    Ecstasy

    Contents

    1. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Venus and Cupid, 1509.

    2. John Collier, Lilith, 1887.

    3. Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897.

    4. Sandro Botticelli, The Madonna of the Presentiment (detail), 1482.

    5. Miniature illustration for Boccaccio’s Decameron, 14th century.

    6. Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, 1840.

    7. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucretia, 1533.

    8. Julie Mangenet Cameron, St Agnes, 1864.

    9. Anonymous French etching.

    10. Rojan, Springtime Idyll, 1934.

    11. Franz von Stuck, Salome, 1906.

    12. Armand Petitjean, pastel drawings 1946–1947.

    13. Armand Petitjean, pastel drawings 1946–1947.

    14. Anonymous photo.

    15. François Boucher, Le Repos de la Volupté, 1748.

    16. Auguste Rodin, Le Cercle des Amours (The Circle of Lovers), around 1880.

    17. Rudolf Schlichter, Free and Easy, 1920s.

    18. Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St Theresa, 1647–1652.

    19. Colbet, etched colour engraving.

    20. Volupté, 19th century.

    21. Gustav Klimt, Scene in a Dream, 1911.

    22. Gustav Klimt, Women Seated With Her Legs Apart, 1916–1917.

    23. Franz von Bayros, The Garden of Aphrodite, from Drawings of Love, 1907.

    24. Gustav Klimt, Two Lovers, 1914.

    25. Gustav Klimt, Couple, 1914.

    26. Jules Duboscq, Second Empire. Daguerreotype.

    27. Simon Solomon, Sappho and Erinna in the Garden of Mitylene, 1864.

    28. Coloured shunga (‘Images of Spring’).

    29. Anonymous. Daguerreotype.

    30. Berthomme

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