"Patterns of Desire" was published in 1990 by Hudson Hills Press to accompany an exhibition of erotic watercolours by the feminist artist Joyce Kozloff ; 32 full-page decorative paintings are reproduced in the book with commentaries explaining both the scene and sources.
ISBN 9781555950538 

Linda Nochlin, the noted art historian, provides an introductory essay
"Pornography as a Decorative Art : Joyce Kozloff's Patterns of Desire"

The 88pp hardback book measures approx 11  x  11 inches ( 28.5cm  x  28,5cm)
Published by Hudson Hill Press of New York and printed on quality acid free paper.

From the flyleaf
....Patterns of Desire is an artists's exploration of the erotic through an extraordinary suite of watercolour paintings that incorporate both sexual and ornamental motifs from the great art of the world, East and West. Joyce Kozloff, a leading artist who explores ornament in all her work, including large-scale architectural and environmental projects, here provides surprising and amusing juxtapositions in a series of fantasies that romp through art history. Here are scenes ranging from The Cabinet of Dr Caligari to a Charles Rennie Mackintosh tea-room, from The Book of Kells to Japanese science fiction movies, from visionary French architectural drawings to Greek pottery, from a pre-Columbian codex to an Italian Renaissance villa. All are treated with an equal inventiveness and irreverence......

In the late spring of 2011 Keeble Antiques purchased all the publisher's uncirculated copies of this fine book.
Exclusively priced at a very realistic £25.00 - shrink-wrapped - (this hardback book was published at $35.00 in 1990).

Want to know more about Joyce Kozloff - here's a recent interview from Otis College
(Pioneers of the Feminist Art Moverment) 
 

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