Sex to Sexty [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Für die einen ist es das vulgärste Magazin, das es jemals gab, für die anderen das letzte ehrliche Kompendium amerikanischen Sexhumors. Sex to Sexty kam auf den Markt, als die sexuelle Revolution Horizonte erweiterte und Tabus einstampfte, und endete jäh, als derartiger Humor nicht mehr "politisch korrekt" war. Wie auch immer Ihre persönliche Haltung dazu sein mag, Sex to Sexty war und ist eine skandalöse Sammlung schmutziger Witze und Cartoons, die von 1965 bis 1983 von dem texanischen Unternehmer John Newbern herausgegeben wurde. Sein Partner bei der Offensive gegen den guten Geschmack war der Hillbilly-Künstler Pierre Davis. Für jede Ausgabe gestaltete er ein kunstvolles Cover in Öl, das jede Verirrung menschlichen Humors zelebrierte. Kein Thema war sicher vor den anspruchslosen Weisheiten dieser beiden Männer und den Cartoonisten, die sie einberiefen, den "wahren Volkswitz Amerikas" zu schützen. Der Band Sex to Sexty reproduziert jedes der 198 Magazin-Cover und viele der Originalbilder, die sie zierten.

Some call it the most vulgar magazine ever made; others see it as the last honest compendium of American sexual humor, starting just as the sexual revolution was expanding minds and stomping taboos, and ending when political correctness made all such humor socially unacceptable. Whatever your stance, the magazine "Sex to Sexty" was and is an outrageous collection of dirty jokes and cartoons published from 1965 to 1983 by Texas entrepreneur John Newbern, whose life was lifted straight from the pages of his publication. His partner in crime against good taste was hillbilly artist Pierre Davis, who created elaborate oil painted covers for each issue that celebrate every permutation of manly humor. No topic was safe from the lowbrow wit of these two men and the cartoonists they recruited to preserve what they called the "True Jokelore of America". "Sex to Sexty" reproduces all 198 covers of the magazine and many of the original paintings that adorned them.

Then, in the first in-depth analysis of American sexual humor, author and editor Dian Hanson categorizes the great themes revealed by the thousands of cartoons and jokes into spreads with titles like "Stinkfinger," "Incest on the Best," "Cannibal Cuisine," and "I Love Ewe!." Raw, irreverent, uncensored and all-American, "Sex to Sexty" spares no gender, sexual preference, ethnic orientation, or hygienic dysfunction in bringing you what the magazine's original publisher called the "World's Largest Accumulation of He-Man Robust Humor in the World." Special fold-out dust jacket shows every cover image and unfolds to reveal a poster of a never before seen, unreleased "Sex to Sexty" cover originally deemed "too tasteless" by the magazine's publisher, but definitely "suitable for framing in your bar, rumpus room or bathroom".

artist Mike Kelley, born in 1954, works with performance, installation, drawing and painting, video, sound, and sculpture. Drawing from historical research, mass cultural sources, psychological theory and Sex to Sexty, his artworks reference both high art and vernacular traditions. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Dian Hanson is a 25-year veteran of men's magazine publishing. She began her career at Puritan Magazine in 1976 and went on to edit a variety of titles, including Partner, Oui, Hooker, Outlaw Biker, and Juggs magazines. In 1987 she took over the '60s title Leg Show and transformed it into the world's best-selling fetish publication. Most recently, she authored TASCHEN's Dian Hanson's History of Men's Magazines six volume set, The Big Book of Breasts, Richard Kern's Action and The New Erotic Photography.