Dian Hanson Books

Ren Hang, who took his life February 23, 2017, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the forefront Chinese artists' battle for creative freedom. Like his champion Ai Weiwei, Ren was controversial in his homeland and wildly popular in the rest of the world. He said, “I don't really view my work as taboo, because I don't think so much in cultural context, or political context. I don't intentionally push boundaries, I just do what I do.” Why? Because his models, friends, and in his last years, fans, are naked, often outdoors, high in the trees or on the terrifyingly vertiginous rooftops of Beijing, stacked like building blocks, heads wrapped in octopi, body cavities sprouting phone cords and flowers, whatever entered his mind at the moment

Elvgren-Girls gehen nicht, sie stolpern, straucheln und fallen durchs Leben. Ihr Wappentier ist der Tölpel, ihr Schicksal das Missgeschick, das ihren Fans großzügige und stimmungsaufhellende Blicke auf Straps, Strumpfsaum und Höschen gewährt. In seiner drei Jahrzehnte umspannenden Karriere schuf Gil Elvgren rund 700 Pin-up-Bilder, fast ausnahmslos in Öl auf Leinwand, und wurde zu einem Star des Genres. Bei Sammlern erfreuen sich seine All-American-Girls in Nöten heute noch größerer Beliebtheit als die Arbeiten seiner Kollegen George Petty und Alberto Vargas. Seine Werke finden sich in einigen der meistverkauften Bücher und Kalender des TASCHEN-Verlags, und nun sind 200 seiner besten in einem kompakten Paket erhältlich, das ideal zum Verschenken geeignet ist – oder für den Eigenbedarf. Von den ersten Gemälden Mitte der Dreißigerjahre bis in die Siebziger hinein ist alles vertreten – und das handlicher, preisgünstiger und hinreißender als je zuvor!

In 1993, Roy Stuart started creating monthly photo stories for "Leg Show" magazine, collaborating with editor Dian Hanson. This boxed set features a selection of 34 stories produced for the magazine between 1995 and 2001, intended as a heartfelt gift.

"History of Fantasy Art" explores the vibrant genre from its origins in 1923 to its resurgence in the 1960s and 70s, highlighting key influences like Dungeons & Dragons and iconic artists such as Frank Frazetta. This comprehensive volume features original paintings, sketches, and informative biographies, making it an essential guide to fantasy art.

Thomas Leycester Poulton was an English magazine and medical book illustrator, born in 1897. Upon his death in 1963 it was discovered he was also a prolific and imaginative erotic artist. Tom Poulton's work tells us much about English society between 1948 and 1963. This book deals with his work.

14 vollständige Geschichten und 60 Einzelzeichnungen von völlig unangemessenen und psychologisch verkorksten Sexfantasien, liebevoll ausgewählt vom ultimativen Underground-Cartoonisten.

To many, Andres Serrano is the man responsible for ""Piss Christ"" and a national debate over government funding of controversial art. For those who look deeper, he's a highly-accomplished, ever-evolving photographic artist. This collection reveals three years of work that produced over 100 portraits of cultural diversity in America, as filtered through the critical lens of one of America's most mythologized contemporary artists. 3-8228-3504-8$59.99 / Taschen America LLC

The Little Book of Vargas - Hanson Dian. Alberto Vargas took over Esquire magazine’s monthly pin-up post in late 1940. By 1942, when the U.S. joined the war, he had more than a million ardent enlisted fans who carried his pin-ups in backpacks and duffel bags as reminders of the American girls they'd left behind. When Esquire was charged with obscenity over a particularly spicy pin-up in 1943 the military stepped in to fight for The Varga Girl, declaring her necessary to maintain the morale of young fighting men. Today these wartime pin-ups are the most collectible of Vargas’s work. Find them all in this pocket-sized delight. Publikace: The Little Book of Vargas - Hanson Dian.

The best of The New Erotic Photography and The New Erotic Photography 2 combine in this perfectly-formed collection of the world's most intriguing erotic photography talents. Over 350 fresh and provocative images showcase over 60 photographers as well as several outstanding models including self-portraitist Jody Frost and cover artist April-lea...

This fourth installment of Hanson's critically acclaimed body parts series is an exploration of the perennial fascination with female derriere. More than 400 photos from 1900 to the present day are contextualized by interviews with porn icon John Stagliano, artist Robert Crumb, and others.