ELOGIUM MENTULAE by PIERO FORNASETTIThe Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) is
ELOGIUM MENTULAE by PIERO FORNASETTIThe Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) is best known for his classically oriented, engraving-like style.While Fornasetti was a war exile in Switzerland in 1945, he planned a limited-edition erotic book he called Elogium Mentulae, comprised of 69 pencil and ink drawings based on the penis, each one accompanied by a text of modern or ancient authors. In a style reminiscent of the Renaissance artist Arcimboldo, Fornasetti turned phalluses into noses, snakes, bulls, and fruit stands, and transformed grapes into breasts and testicles. But a publisher was never found for the project and Fornasetti put it aside.Elogium Mentulae — a work by one of the modern age’s most prolific artists and creators — remains unpublished to this day.via; http://purple.fr/magazine/f-w-2010-issue-14/490 -- source link
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