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Sex Collectors : The Secret World of Consumers by Geoff Nicholson 2006 HCDJ
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Embossed stamp on title page.”
- ISBN
- 9780743265874
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743265874
ISBN-13
9780743265874
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51080353
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sex Collectors : The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of Erotica
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Erotica / General, Subjects & Themes / Erotica, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Film / Genres / General, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Performing Arts, Social Science, Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-057600
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
306.77
Table Of Content
1 An Introduction:The usual throat clearing, my father's gnomic wisdom, anal retention, less than full disclosure, living with and without a sex collection. 2 Women and Museums:Wilzig, Kubrick, Evans, Homer. 3 Some History, Some Theory:Hair, horn, holy foreskins; Benjamin, Freud, Marx, Aljasmets. Aljasmets? 4 Collecting the Self and Others:Lotus shoes, fingernails, art, the penis in plaster. 5 The Numbers Game:Hatred, repellent behavior, a scoreboard, a garment of shame, a melancholy archive. 6 Some Erotic Bibliographers -- Bloomsbury to Santa Rosa:An erotomaniac and an erotomane. 7 Ex Libris and an Ex-Actress:The commissioner and the commissioned. 8 New York Boys and Girls:Connoisseurs, trade, sanity, and order. 9 The Dealer and the Dealt With:Statistics, aesthetic consolidation, cynicism, the conveyor belt of acquisition. 10 What I Did at the Kinsey:A belief in data, increasing your happiness, the Documentary Collection, the missing "Spicies." 11 The Fatherland, the Mother Lode:Porn art, an old Etonian, a book club, some barbed wire, a failed collector. Bibliography
Synopsis
Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforumor stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world of eccentric artists and serious collectors. In Sex Collectors,Geoff Nicholson hunts down an assortment of these obsessives around the world. From the Florida grandma with five million dollars' worth of sexual collectibles to Third Eye Blind's manager, who owns more than eighty thousand men's magazines, Nicholson celebrates these collectors and the occasionally beautiful, frequently bizarre, and always fascinating objects they have amassed. He accompanies Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat,as she is taken on a tour of a collection devoted to her. Days spent in the Kinsey archives reveal the cultural artifacts resulting from the sexual awakening of public America, as well as boxes with labels such as "Phallus with Agricultural Tools" and "Scarf Trick when Folded." Nicholson journeys to Germany to visit with the legendary Karl-Ludwig Leonhardt, sex collector extraordinaire of first edition volumes such as Flagellation pour couples pervertisand Tender Bottoms,erotic Picassos, and notes handwritten by the Marquis de Sade. Throughout his exploration of some of the wildest collections in the world, Nicholson's discussion of collecting as an expression of self and psychology goes hand in hand with his gleeful discovery of the seventh giant phallus used in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange,Hitler's creepily erotic personalized bookplate, and a woman who has a plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix's penis. Sex Collectorsis a winning story of one man's attempt to collect collectors, to reveal the neuroses that drive some people to collect, and to have good, dirty, high-minded fun while doing it., Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforum or stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world of eccentric artists and serious collectors. In Sex Collectors, Geoff Nicholson hunts down an assortment of these obsessives around the world. From the Florida grandma with five million dollars' worth of sexual collectibles to Third Eye Blind's manager, who owns more than eighty thousand men's magazines, Nicholson celebrates these collectors and the occasionally beautiful, frequently bizarre, and always fascinating objects they have amassed. He accompanies Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat, as she is taken on a tour of a collection devoted to her. Days spent in the Kinsey archives reveal the cultural artifacts resulting from the sexual awakening of public America, as well as boxes with labels such as Phallus with Agricultural Tools and Scarf Trick when Folded. Nicholson journeys to Germany to visit with the legendary Karl-Ludwig Leonhardt, sex collector extraordinaire of first edition volumes such as Flagellation pour couples pervertis and Tender Bottoms, erotic Picassos, and notes handwritten by the Marquis de Sade. Throughout his exploration of some of the wildest collections in the world, Nicholson's discussion of collecting as an expression of self and psychology goes hand in hand with his gleeful discovery of the seventh giant phallus used in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Hitler's creepily erotic personalized bookplate, and a woman who has a plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix's penis. Sex Collectors is a winning story of one man's attempt to collectcollectors, to reveal the neuroses that drive some people to collect, and to have good, dirty, high-minded fun while doing it.
LC Classification Number
HQ462.N53 2006
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