THE ARSE IN ART

By Edward Lucie-Smith

215x176mm • 128pp • £12.99 • HB • ISBN 978-1-906051-35-8 • June 2008
Available in the UK, EC, South Africa and Singapore

THE ARSE IN ART gives you a perspective on art that you may never have appreciated. Showing the fundamental aspects of well-known images, this cheeky book challenges you to identify the full picture behind the detail. Beautiful bottoms from the full spectrum of world art are shown in luscious close-up, uncluttered by text. You can appreciate them solely for their artistic or their fleshly qualities, or you can treat them as a challenging quiz and try to place them in their artistic context. Whichever route you take, there's a directory at the back of the book, showing all the pictures in full, with extended captions.

EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH is an internationally renowned art historian, writer, poet, lecturer, and broadcaster. He is the author of many biographical critiques, as well as art historical and general reference books, including The Faber Book of Art Anecdotes (1992), Art and Civilization (1992), Visual Arts in the 20th Century (1996), Ars Erotica (1998), Adam: A History of the Male Figure in Art (1998), Judy Chicago: An American Vision (2000), Movements in Art Since 1945 (2001) and Censoring the Body (2007). He is also co-author with Judy Chicago of Women and Art (1999). He lives in London, England.