In 1973 the Centurians Encyclopedia Of Sex Instruments was published, a catalogue with bdsm toys and devices one could order via the magazine. There are some really nice artworks shown in the catalogue, no idea on the artist. I decided to create this album as a free give away. The entire encyclopedia, with photos and advertisements I did not include, can be seen through the webarchive via this link.
Artworks there are in larger format then in the album.
This artist seems rather invisible, it might even be possible it is just another pseudonym from a known artist. He signed his art with initials J. M. but since some artworks were printed in mirror initials could also have been L.M.The only book with an obvious signature is the book…
P. Fusty was a spanking artist who illustrated Le Tour d’Europe d’un Flagellant by Lord Birchisgood (1909). In the BNF library’s entry for this book, the illustrator’s name is misspelled P. Tiusty. This is definitely an error. P. Fusty is the correct name – a pseudonym, it seems; the French…
Mario was a fetish artist who worked for a short period of time for Irving Klaw’s Movie Star News company. He drew two complete serials for Klaw and one unfinished, all are featured in the gallery below. “Rubber Queen’s Captives” (1954) was an unfinished comic. Unlike his contemporaries Eric Stanton…
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, (1893 – 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. After his father’s death in 1900,…
Roger Jadot was a Belgian artist based in Brussels. In the 1950s, he created numerous sadomasochistic artworks, often with a strong emphasis on fetish and erotic themes. Much of his oeuvre remains unknown and unpublished. Under various pseudonyms, including Sérajat and most likely Joe Fifties, he illustrated for English and…
Johannes Hendrikus (Joop) Moesman (1909 – 1988) was a Dutch surreal painter, calligrapher, typographer and type designer. Initially he worked as a draftsman at the Dutch Railways. His father, Johannes Anthonius Moesman, was a draftsman, lithographer, stone printer and amateur photographer. The self-taught Moesman visited Galerie Nord, run by the…
The case of the electromechanical vibrator
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