Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film

This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to contemporary poster art--and the cinema of six decades--from horror classics of the 1930s to recent slasher films--documenting the surprising variety of guises in which sexuality appears in fantasy art and cinema. Among the subjects treated are occult eroticism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313241023
• ISBN13: 9780313241024
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"