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Lovely legs: A new low-cost tribute to the shapely pedestals of female charm The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was kept covered and treated as taboo, until it became an object of sexual obsession. In Victorian times, the word 'leg' was forbidden in polite society, lest gentlemen be driven wild with lust. Even now, 80 years after women's legs finally came out of hiding, their allure remains mysterious and powerful. The third in Dian Hanson's wildly successful series on erotic body parts is now downsized in a lighter, more portable edition that retains all the original photos and text. Explore how the female leg became central to women's emacipation, from the French Revolution to the sexual revolution. Over 400 photos document the first burlesque shows of the 1800s, the silk-stockinged flappers of the 20s, the nylon-mania of the 40s, the dawn of the stiletto in the 50s, and the golden age of leg magazines in the 60s. Who wore the first high heels, how did nylons become a weapon of war, why were Betty Grable's the "million dollar legs," where did Elmer Batters get his start, and just what is the deal with feet? The answers are all here, along with vintage photos by Irving Klaw, Peter Gowland, Bunny Yeager, Batters, and other great masters of leg art. Text in English, French, and German

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Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Human figures depicted in art

• Full title: Little Big Book of Legs
• Author: Dian Hanson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9783836555722
• ISBN: 3836555727
• ID: 09253978
• Publisher: Taschen GmbH
• Weight: 419 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 195 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 2019

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