Other violent sculptures suggest the bizarre contraptions and scenes of bondage in de Sade’s stories. In “Cage” (1930-31) a semiabstract human form, hemmed in by protective shields ...

"Scene of War in the Middle Ages" by Degas ... as first formulated in de Sade's writings.” In Picasso's "The Rape of the Sabine Women", where a soldier’s horse is trampling a woman and ...

His de Sade is nowhere to be seen ... revolutionary imprisonment in 1772 to his release in 1790, her behind-the-scenes manipulation of his fate is gradually revealed not only to have wearied ...

And despite the nasty sexual-politics of predatory power in de Sade, his influence upon the Dada and Surrealist art movements at the beginning of the twentieth century is something to celebrate.

Vice principle Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, born in 1740 ... and many other surrealists looked to Sade’s writings, whose scenes of sex and violence are often anatomically impossible ...

Two centuries after his death, the descendants of the notorious Marquis de Sade have finally embraced their once-reviled relative. The French aristocrat scandalised his contemporaries with his ...

There is a brief introduction of de Sade's wife bringing her husband some ... and then disappears from the scene, never to be heard from again. Imagine what could have been done with this subject.

And this is also the most common scenes in Sade’s libertine ... rather be a nun than his wife. In the end Sade submitted to the marriage to Renée de Montreuil. Against all odds she became ...

He was 65. Known for such films as “Pretty Peaches,” “Femmes de Sade” and “Baby Face,” the San Francisco-based director made more than 200 adult films (including those under the ...

There is the practical element too. De Sade had a prodigiously warped imagination. It is very hard to depict some of the more extreme scenes from his novels on camera, for example, the characters ...