Sexy Dreams
                                             (1992 - Taschen)  

     Not appropriate for children or adolescents.  72 art pages in an 80-page book, with only four of those being for multiple smaller images.  Almost every one of the eight double-page spreads seem ill-advised - what they would have lost in size, if held to one page, would have been made up for in needed cohesion.  All works are captioned with only the artist's name.  Textwise, there are only 5 pages and they include the foreword and brief artist biographies (all written in English, German & French).  While one might critique all these works as tasteful, enough of them have a 'come-hither-for-no-misinterpreted-purpose' salaciousness, to have me recommend that the book be put away from children, if owned.  'Well-presented' artists here are:  Chris Achilleos (6)***, Araida, Phillip M. Awuy (4), Olivia De Berardinis (12)***, Masahiko Fujii, Noboru Ikeuchi (4), Yasuhiro Kagami, Hideaki Kodama, Junichi Murayama (3), Keui Nakagawa, Seji Nakamura (4), Noboru Nonaka, Oshikuni Okubo, Sadao Sato (2), Boris Vallejo (3)*, Harumi Yamaguchi (2), Akira Yokoyama (6), Zappy


* - Note that all of the 'well-presented' selections here by Boris can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.
*** - Note that of the 'well-presented' pieces here by Achilleos, and Olivia, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.


other collections of prurient interest

                                                   SQP books

               SQP's Flirt books

              Treasured Chests  vol.3 & 4

              SQP's 'Lust' books

              Jungle Tails  vol.4

              Wet And Wild

              Devil Dolls vol.1

              Eternal Temptation  [vol.1]

              Dangerous Curves

              Spanking Tails  vol.2

              Drakaina Masters

  Secret Identity - The Fetish Art Of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster

  Men's Adventure Magazines In Postwar America

  It's A Man's World

  The Blue Book

  Feral House's paperback cover art books

  Strange Sisters - The Art Of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969

  Graphic Thrills - American XXX Movie Posters 1970 to 1985  vols.1 & 2

  Young Lusty Sluts - A Pictorial History Of Erotic Pulp Fiction

  Erotic Comics  vols.1 & 2

  Chronicle's paperback cover art collections

  True Crime Detective Magazines

  Solson's Gary & Al books

  The Art Of Eric Stanton - For The Man Who Knows His Place

  Baldazzini & Saudelli's Bizarreries Book 1  [BELOW THE LINE]

  Sex In The Comics  [BELOW THE LINE]


other Taschen collections

  Men's Adventure Magazines In Postwar America

  The Great American Pin-Up

  True Crime Detective Magazines

  Taschen's 'Pin-Up Girls' books

  75 Years Of DC Comics - The Art Of Modern Mythmaking

  1000 Record Covers  [BELOW THE LINE]



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