Description:This scholarly work by one of France's top modern writers and filmmakers
offers readers a "broad philosophical panorama of the whole spectrum of
the erotic," starting with prehistoric times and through the artistic
eroticism of the ancient Greeks, the orgies of Rome, the Christian era
up through the Renaissance and Reformation, and the sexual revolution of
the present. 237 pp. with more than 100 black and white photographs and
reproductions of erotic art