The Blue Book
(1983 - Indigo Books)

(by Brad Benedict) Not appropriate for children or adolescents. A stylistically diverse 96-page collection of erotic material, 59 pages feature some large reproduction and another 32 collect multiple-images. Eight of those pages were taken by four really large images spread across the book's gutter (two of them suffer greatly because of it). Everything is captioned with each artist's name and a title, if the piece has one. The volume is bright & colorful in its many depictions of nudes, or the nearly dressed (as well as the handful of images that cross over into the land of adult themes), all the more reason to keep it out of the sight of minors. The artists being well-presented are: Montxo Algora, Lou Beach, Richard Bernstein, Robert Blue (2), Braldt Bralds, Justin Carroll, Olivia deBerardinis, Robert Giusti, Jean Paul Goude (2), Daerick Gröss, Robert Grossman, Tom Hachtman, Mick Haggerty (2), George Hardie, Gillian Hills, Bush Hollyhead, Bill Imhoff, Allen Jones, Conny Jude, Robert Kopecky, Betty Levine, Rich Mahon, David McMacken, Dennis Mukai, Mel Odom, Yosuke Ohnishi, Peter Palombi, Neon Park, Everett Peck, Mel Ramos, Paul Reott, Peter Sato (2), Todd Schorr, Elwood H. Smith, Hajime Sorayama*, George Stavrinos, Nick Taggart, Bill Tom, John VanHamersveld, Vartan, Andy Warhol, Stan Watts, Tom Wesselmann, Harumi Yamaguchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Katsu Yoshida, and Brian Zick.