Art Nouveau Erotica

December, 1967

The Works of Five Artists--England's Aubrey Beardsley, Australia's Norman Lindsay, Austria's Gustav Klimt and Germany's Franz von Bayros and Franz Christophe--comprise this Playboy portfolio of vintage erotic art. Like the turned-on art of today's hippies, art nouveau began as a reaction to the up-tight moral and aesthetic values of "square society." Lindsay's rococo creations--drawn during the Twenties in Australia, where the antisexual vestiges of Victorianism outlived its influence...

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