{"title":"Erotica","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBooks exploring the aesthetics of desire, fantasy and the erotic imagination. From underground comics to avant-garde photography and fashion’s more subversive edges, these works trace how sexuality has been staged, stylised and re-imagined across the last century. A space for the bold, the playful and the provocative - where visual culture meets pleasure, power and the art of suggestion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"david-baileys-trouble-and-strife-1981","title":"DAVID BAILEY'S TROUBLE AND STRIFE [1981]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThames \u0026amp; Hudson, 1981 | Hardcover, unpaginated | 25 × 25 cm | Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBailey’s \u003ci\u003eTrouble and Strife\u003c\/i\u003e - Cockney slang for “wife” - is a darkly erotic study of intimacy, power and perception. Shot throughout the 1970s and published at the dawn of the Thatcher decade, this deeply personal volume \u003cspan\u003ewas a statement of defiance: sexual liberation and artifice in a conservative cultural moment. I\u003c\/span\u003et captures Bailey at his most distilled: high-gloss, high-voltage, wholly unrepentant. The portraits of \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eMarie Helvin\u003c\/span\u003e shimmer with a kind of lucid danger - sex as theatre, body as architecture, gaze as weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComprising eighty-one photographs - and no text between images - this is a pure photobook: silent, cinematic and charged. 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