Ars Erotica
Ars Erotica is a book by the British art critic Edward Lucie-Smith, subtitled An Arousing History of Erotic Art and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in London in 1997. It surveys erotic art across the centuries, and Jack Fritscher is represented in it by one photograph, “Undercovercop: The Coefficients of Desire.”
Edward Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1933 and is described as a writer, poet, art critic, curator, and broadcaster. His books include Sexuality in Western Art (1991), a revised edition of Eroticism in Western Art (1972), and Adam: The Male Figure in Art (1998).
Jack Fritscher, PhD, is an author, photographer, and former editor-in-chief of Drummer magazine, which he edited from 1977 to 1979. His books include the novel Some Dance to Remember and the memoir Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera, and his photographs have appeared in several illustrated books by others, including a second Lucie-Smith title, Adam: The Male Figure in Art. His work for the magazine is documented in the Drummer Magazine Archive.
More of Jack Fritscher’s photographs in books by others: The Big Penis Book, BRAVE: Men and Fetish, and Petite Mort.
by Edward Lucie-Smith
Weidenfeld & Nicolson ©1997