Herbert Lewandowski - Beschavings- en Zedengeschiedenis van Nederland [...]

Herbert Lewandowski & P.J. van Dranen - Beschavings- en Zedengeschiedenis van Nederland. Met 120 afbeeldingen op kunstdrukpapier en 23 tabellen en grafieken in den tekst - Amsterdam - N.V. Uitgevers-Maatschappij Enum - 1933 - 1st edition - 336 pp - Cloth binding - 18,5 x 28 cm.

Condition: Excellent.

History of the mores and the sex life of the Dutch, published in the 1930s. Illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions. With (important!) bibliography and index. Hardback edition.

The book deals with decency, fashion, pornography, PROSTITUTION (p. 129-164), feminism, venereal diseases, contraceptives, sexual crimes, homosexual reading, modern art, etc.

¶ With chapter on contemporary painters including Pyke Koch, J.K. Moesman and (about the work 'Ariadne' by) A.C. Willink : "One gets the feeling that the artist has enjoyed the desperation he will cause among the bourgeois viewers during the work".