EROTICISM
An important collection of licentious images about love in all times and countries. From fertile graffiti to the first multiple xylograph copies; and then on to calcographs, aquaforts, lithographs and finally photographs. Almost all the artists that created these images, and the people that distributed them, were persecuted: no other iconographic subject, such as eroticism and cheerful pornography, has ever been considered as subversive and dangerous by the dominant culture: politic, religious and "official".
Notwithstanding the enormous number of images produced on sexual themes,
the subject has always been ignored in all histories of art and photography;
the images in the Fototeca Storica Nazionale archive could be used to represent a historical
"missing chapter" that has always been censored in the name of a hypocritical morality.
If you like you can access to the Archive blue-zone through the login: history&
and password: eros |
