Undressing the Art of Playing Dress Up

Undressing the Art of Playing Dress Up
Author: Troy Doerner
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780764345685

Cosplay, dressing up as characters from pop culture, has swept fan conventions around the world. Now, explore the adult side of this popular phenomenon. This enormous collection of pin-up style photos provides a tantalizing look at sexy female cosplayers from around the world. They are not afraid to shed their costume to bring your character fantasies to life. Stepping away from the booth babe stereotype, Cosplay Deviants' models are engrossed in nerd culture along with the fans who make up the community and appear as popular characters from gaming, comics, anime and manga, and science fiction. With a foreword by Edgar Munster, model interviews, and more than 360 images, you will see just what it means to undress the art of playing dress up.

The Art of Undressing

The Art of Undressing
Author: Stephanie Lehmann
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1444765469

Ginger Levine really doesn't want to turn into her mother. Coco used to be an exotic dancer and now makes her living selling sex toys and teaching the Fine Art of Striptease. A straitlaced twenty-five-year-old would-be pastry chef, Ginger has no desire to follow in her mum's high-heeled footsteps. But when she falls for a fellow student, she finds herself ill-equipped in the art of seduction. And suddenly she's looking for some motherly advice on how to reveal herself to the man she loves . . .

The Undressing: Poems

The Undressing: Poems
Author: Li-Young Lee
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0393635015

“Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.” —NPR A breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, and the horrors the poet grew up with as a child of refugees. Lee draws from disparate sources including the Old Testament, the Dao De Jing, and the music of the Wu-Tang Clan. While the ostensive subjects of these layered, impassioned poems are wide-ranging, their driving engine is a burning need to understand our collective human mission.

Paradoxical Undressing

Paradoxical Undressing
Author: Kristin Hersh
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0857893017

Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting university at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was living in her car, unable to sleep for the torment of strange songs swimming around her head - the songs for which she is now known. But just as her band was taking off, Hersh was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Paradoxical Undressing chronicles the unraveling of a young woman's personality, culminating in a suicide attempt; and then her arduous yet inspiring recovery, her unplanned pregnancy at the age of 19, and the birth of her first son. Playful, vivid, and wonderfully warm, this is a visceral and brave memoir by a truly original performer, told in a truly original voice.

Undressing Mercy

Undressing Mercy
Author: Deanna Lee
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0758282052

Get Naked For Me As director of a Boston art gallery, Mercy Rothell has made some hot deals in her time, but none like this. In order to sign the impossibly sexy, brilliant, and successful artist Shamus Montgomery to do a show of his celebrated erotic sculptures, Mercy must meet his curious but absolutely non-negotiable demand--she must pose for him in the nude, day after day, or he walks. Never one to back down from a challenge, Mercy agrees. Burning under the intense gaze of the hottest man she's ever known, watching his hands work their magic, Mercy feels vulnerable yet liberated and fully aroused, desperate for the kind of satisfaction only a master like Shamus can give. In fact, she would beg him to cross the line. And once he does, mercy is the last thing she desires. . . "Lee hits the mark time and time again. . .in a class by itself." --Romantic Times (4 1⁄2 Stars G, Top Pick) "An incredible gem of a story. . .different and extraordinary." --Just Erotic Romance Reviews "The love scenes are hot, hot, hot, and the story will keep you riveted from beginning to end. . .absolutely magnificent."--Fallen Angels Reviews (5 Angels) "Sexy and sensual and totally hot. . .will keep you turning the pages." --The Romance Studio Deanna Lee has received rave reviews for her e-published erotic fiction, including a 4 1⁄2-star, Gold Medal, Top Pick review from Romantic Times for Undressing Mercy. She lives in Alabama where she is currently working on the next novel in this planned trilogy.

Slow Art

Slow Art
Author: Arden Reed
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520285506

Introduction : marking time -- What is slow art? (when images swell into events and events condense into images) -- Living pictures -- Before slow art -- Slow art emerges in modernity I : secularization from Diderot to Wilde -- Slow art emerges in modernity II : the great age of speed -- Slow fiction, film, video, performance, 1960 to 2010 -- Slow photography, painting, installation art, sculpture, 1960 to 2010 -- Angel and devil of slow art

How to Undress a Cop

How to Undress a Cop
Author: Sarah Cortez
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2000-09-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781611921786

ItÍs not every book of poetry that includes an ñOde to Body Armor.î But then, itÍs not every poet whose experience in academia includes a stint at the police academy. The poems of Sarah Cortez are tough-minded, verbally supple, and often deeply (even explicitly) erotic: You want me to come/ to you each night, drop my gun belt,/ lie along your muscled length . . . And each of these fifty lyric poems (with titles such as ñRosie Working Plain Clothes,î ñLas TÕas,î and ñAttempt to Locateî) displays CortezÍs many facets: the street smarts of a law-enforcement officer (deputy constable in HoustonÍs Harris County); the bilingual vocabulary of a proud Mexican American; the coolly analytic eye of a corporate accountant (as she once was); the linguistic dexterity of a Latin teacher (another former occupation); and the frank sensuality of a strong and spirited woman. Surveying fellow officers, friends, criminals, lovers, strangers, and family members, Sarah Cortez has learned that a bullet-proof vest may, with luck, protect the body, but keeping the heart from harm is a chancier and more mysterious affair. Long after the pages of How to Undress a Cop have been turned, her unique and distinctive voice will stir the blood and haunt the memory.

Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550

Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550
Author: Professor Penny Howell Jolly
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1472414950

Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery - including her dress - in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saint’s widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint, erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, and others, Jolly investigates artists’ and audiences’ responses to increasing religious tensions, expanding art markets, and changing roles for women.

Undressing Emmanuelle: A memoir

Undressing Emmanuelle: A memoir
Author: Sylvia Kristel
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0007282982

The candid and heartbreakingly honest memoir of Sylvia Kristel, the cinema icon of the 1970s who played the lead role in the worldwide sensation erotic Emmanuelle films.