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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"This month, Harry N. Abrams is releasing a book of 100 of Mr. Ruff's nudes, with an introductory text by the notoriously louche French author Michel Houellebecq. (The text, a brief excerpt from Mr. Houellebecq's third novel, The Platform, recounts the narrator's experiences at a fictional sex club in the south of France.) The publication coincides with an exhibition of the artist's most recent work opening at Zwirner on Thursday.
This rather risqué project signals a new direction for Abrams, a traditional publishing house best known for producing art history textbooks and classy museum catalogs. While some European publishers -- most notably Taschen in Cologne -- have actively cultivated a market for sexually graphic art-photography books, Abrams has been slow to adopt an X-rated aesthetic." Big Hot Blurry Painterly by Mia Fineman
