Word: sensualism
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...also forthright; witness this line of his short poems: "That I might fornicate with you." The line is actually more comic than shocking; his poetry of cruelty is really the poetry of humor in disguise. Viereck's other poems are more traditionally successful, and his imagery is more subtly sensual, although he consistently approaches cliche...
Despite Beclch's dramatic flaws, the evening thrums with dithyrambic vitality whenever the Afro-American Dance Ensemble takes over the stage. Much of the sensual intensity generated by the play stems from Andre Gregory's flamboyant direction, which not only teases but strips. A Negro-white twosome sweatily mimic copulation in the theater aisle, and some of the African maidens could pass for topless in their transparent flesh-tinted bras...
...backs, the man-as-boy (Jorgen Lindstrom) wanders in memory through a child's garden of sexual reverses. Among the obscene scenes: his mother summoning a crowd of drunken guests into her bedroom and letting them watch while she gives birth to a dead baby; his mother, between sensual caresses, telling him "what a nice litt'e thing" he has and then slapping him angrily when he masturbates in her bed; his mother sneering coldly when he dresses himself in her clothes, daubs himself with her rouge, and pathetically attempts to provoke her appetite...
...first, Indians regarded art as only a means of arousing sensual pleasure. The two addorsed tree dryads of the first century A.D. (fig. 2 showing one side) show both the serenity of Indian art and the erotic sensuality. The Buddhists regarded Nirvana as the only aim of life and rejected everything but strict austerity. This quality is evident in the 13th century seated Buddha (fig. 4) from Nepal...
...Hindus never forgot that art was part of life, the field of holy Pursuit and Return. Yet the early Hindus, at best, saw the artist as a courtesan who made his occupation the knowledge and fulfillment of sensual pleasure...