·The first major 21st-century analysis of this fascinating and controversial subject.
·100 stunning illustrations, 65 in full colour.
·Explores sexual desire and pleasure in the visual arts and the tension between desire and taboo, pleasure and pain, art and pornography.
·Coverage spans from Rossetti to Dalí, Jeff Koons to Robert Mapplethorpe and beyond to the artists of the contemporary art scene such as Tracey Emin and the Chapman Brothers.
·Tackles controversial issues of censorship head on.
Argues that eroticism in art has played a powerful role in the shaping of our notions of taste and cultural value.