Eros Bacchus: Love and Wine (edition in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Russian)

Eros Bacchus: Love and Wine is a one-of-a-kind work, celebrating the meeting between two great forces of life: the wine and love. Richly illustrated, this abundant catalog book brings together more than 1000 images, accompanied by erudite, poetic, and sometimes mischievous texts.

This ambitious project, coordinated by Anne-Françoise Jaccottet, , Alexandre Grandjean, , Patrick Morier-Genoud, , Pierre-Yves Lador and Felippe de Alencastro, explore both the classical representations of bacchic love and contemporary interpretations of the theme.

Through the centuries and across continents, the reader is invited to a iconographic and cultural journey, alternating artworks, everyday objects, pagan and Christian traditions. The book offers:

• A selection of works from the past: paintings, , sculptures, , engravings...

• Popular objects: corkscrews, , Wine labels, , postcards, , bookplate...

• Two original studies: one on the Dionysian rites, the other on the Christian uses of wine.

• Two unpublished literary texts.

• A funny and scientific demonstration of the Links between wine and love.

In order to anchor this project in the present, 38 contemporary artists were invited to express themselves on this dual theme, bringing a diversity of perspectives through drawings, , photographs, , paintings or even sculptures.

This book is a sensory and visual tribute to the eroticism of wine, to its power of disinhibition, communion, and exaltation of the senses.

The whole is enriched with resumes in 6 languages (German, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Russian), making this volume a multilingual and international editorial object, ideal for lovers of art, wine, and sensual culture.

🟣 Article features

• Type of object : Illustrated book

• Title : Eros Bacchus: Love and Wine

• Language : French (multilingual summaries)

• Author(s) : Collective work under the direction of several authors

• Editor : Humus

• Publication date : May 16, 2014

• ISBN : 978-2-940127-73-3

• Format : Paperback

• Number of pages : 432

• Dimensions 23.5 x 14.5 cm

• Weight : 1310 g