"E-rotic Art" - first issued 10/10/06

collection are banned but it's just great .

 

I'm not sure if this thread is the best place to post this, but I thought this was cool as "historical porn". Some things (connection between art and porn) just don't change!



from the New York Times:

Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: May 13, 2009

No one would mistake the Stone Age ivory carving for a Venus de Milo. The voluptuous woman depicted is, to say the least, earthier, with huge, projecting breasts and sexually explicit genitals.

Nicholas J. Conard, an archaeologist at the University of Tübingen, in Germany, who found the small carving in a cave last year, said it was at least 35,000 years old, “one of the oldest known examples of figurative art” in the world. It is about 5,000 years older than some other so-called Venus artifacts made by early populations of Homo sapiens in Europe.

Another archaeologist, Paul Mellars of the University of Cambridge, in England, agreed and went on to remark on the obvious. By modern standards, he said, the figurine’s blatant sexuality “could be seen as bordering on the pornographic.”

The tiny statuette was uncovered in September in a cave in southwestern Germany, near Ulm and the Danube headwaters. Dr. Conard’s report on the find is being published Thursday in the journal Nature.

The discovery, Dr. Conard wrote, “radically changes our view of the origins of Paleolithic art.” Before this, he noted, female imagery was unknown, most carvings and cave drawings being of mammoths, horses and other animals.

Scholars say the figurine is roughly contemporaneous with other early expressions of artistic creativity, like drawings on cave walls in southeastern France and northern Italy. The inspiration and symbolism behind the rather sudden flowering have long been debated by art historians.

Commenting in the journal on the discovery, Dr. Mellars, who did not take part in the research, wrote that the artifact was one of 25 similar carvings found over the past 70 years in other caves in the Swabian region of southern Germany, “a veritable art gallery of early ‘modern’ human art.”

These sites, he concluded, “must be seen as the birthplace of true sculpture in the European — maybe global — artistic tradition.”

Scholars say the large caves were presumably inviting sanctuaries for populations of modern humans migrating then into Central and Western Europe. These were the people who eventually displaced the resident Neanderthals, around 30,000 years ago.

Dr. Conard reported that the discovery was made beneath three feet of red-brown sediment in the floor of the Hohle Fels Cave. Six fragments of the carved ivory, including all but the left arm and shoulder, were recovered. When he brushed dirt off the torso, he said, “the importance of the discovery became apparent.”

The short, squat torso is dominated by oversize breasts and broad buttocks. The split between the two halves of the buttocks is deep and continuous without interruption to the front of the figurine. A greatly enlarged vulva emphasizes the “deliberate exaggeration” of the figurine’s sexual characteristics, Dr. Conard said.

The object reminded experts of the most famous of the sexually explicit figurines from the Stone Age, the Venus of Willendorf, discovered in Austria a century ago. That Venus is somewhat larger and dated about 24,000 years ago, but it is in a style that appeared to have been prevalent for several thousand years. Scholars speculate that these Venus figurines, as they are known, were associated with fertility beliefs or shamanistic rituals.

The Hohle Fels artifact, less than 2.5 inches long and weighing little more than an ounce, is headless. Carved at the top, instead, is a ring, evidently to allow the object to be suspended from a string or thong.


Venus of Willendorf on left

 

::Update 0138::
Fetish/Erotic Art-Issue 031 {003 Of 003}
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Issue 031 Complete
All Credit To The Photographers
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I, for one, find this thread really exciting and catering to some of the finer erotic senses in me.. As opposed to the in your face genitila which has its own adherents, including me..
All power to the posters here with thanks for being steadfast...

 

Always a great thread with high quality pics
Thanks again to River & the others who find such great pics to post

 

The River - oopps... "The Lake"









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Carré-collections are always welcome, same as Nella by Brigham Field - thanks, S - also for the encouragement!
"ideal of beauty" has always been a subject of change throughout the times - tanks for this interesting retrospect, phoolish
thanks Sabre for another fine update. always enjoy your variety.

dragonz, aftab, Gutex0, Masscott, pinchspoon - thanks for stopping by!

 

River, believe me friend, the pleasure is all mine...
Can't thankyou enough for the work you do..
Keep it up!!!

 

May I express my thankfulness to all posters - wonderful work you've already done. I hope this will continue.

Especially liked the pictures that depict the admirable tenderness and beauty of women.

 

Finally caught up. I've been gone to long. Took a little bit to look through all I've missed. Great updates all. Hopefully I'll get some up soon too.

 

Incredible thread. I haven't stopped by in a while. Great updates.

 

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Francois Benveniste
website: http://www.fbenveniste-photos.com


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Stockings and Legs

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Superb work guys.

 

welcome back dtiger

 

Kirsten Varley& Jake Jnr in Hunger
From S-magazine issue 2.
Photographed by Rankin

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i second that, very much! Benaviste, legs, stockings... very, very nice, thank you

pretty almost-explicit pics for Rankin, he´s a great photographer, he´s done some fine shootings with a few celebs. thank you, Giz!

 

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Sweet, some nice adds - thanks riv