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Spaghetti Erotico (Street Design)

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The art images in this book are not scans of original paintings. They are photographs of the book covers. But they are good photos and fill the page. I don't know of too many books that give so much focus to Italian exploitation art so if I didn't already have it I'd definitely pay the current high market price for it.

'Giallo' is Italian for yellow, it was the name for crappy pulp novels sold in Italian train-stations, many of which had an erotic/violent tone. They would then inlfuence movies like those made by Dario Argento and Sergio Martino, basically rip-off of Hitchcock movies, albiet with a tab more blood and boobs. The 'gialli' as they were termed would then influence the American 'slasher' cycle, albiet on a dumber, less artful level.

This book basically collect the artwork of some really wild and crazy covers for 'giallo' books. The artwork, like most Italian art, is sublime, hysterical, incredibly detailed, and infused with heavy doses of violent erotic imagary, where often the men are turned insane from the sublime beauty and inability to resolve the Catholic psychosis of treating the woman as 'the mother or the whore'.

As a result you have charged, potent artwork, that shocks as much as it delights, and delivers an edge that only great art can.

They say you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, I'd love to read the books these covers were taken from, I mean could they possibly live up to them?