"Enchanted and Curious: Stu Mead's Depiction of Adventures with Young Girls."

“The little girls she knows insert pencils, carrots, and candles between their legs; they rub themselves against the sharp edges of tables, and they fidget about on their chairs” (transl. by Caroline Rupprecht). This passage belongs to the Dark Spring novel written by Unica Zürn, the collaborator of Hans Bellmer

Both in Western and Eastern cultures, dolls are an important element of huɱaп life as we consider ourselves to be ‘homines ludentes’ (lit. ɱaп the Player). In Japanese tradition, we can find a term iki..

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In the two articles I added earlier ( Part 1 / Part 2 ) on the enthralling pornographic art of Senju (Stockholm, 1968) we only took a close look at some of my personal favorites from his collection. Therefore I..

images of Stu Mead (b. 1955) look almost like illustrations for this text about the sexual awakening of a prepubescent girl. Besides, his frequent depictions of piss and excrements involved in sexual games of little girls are recognizably Sadean. Still, several years ago, at the birthplace of Marquis, people created a petition to ban Mead’s pictures.

Fig. 1. Showᴛι̇ɱe, 2006 (stumead.com)

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Fig. 3. Picnic, 2009 (stumead.com)

Fig. 4. ‘Heil Dwarfs

Fig. 5. ‘Kiss of Kalli ‘ (2015)

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Japenese Women bathing While the Japanese people of the 19th Century bathed frequently, most did not have baths in their own homes and instead used public bathhouses ( sento ) , where everyone was exposed. By going..

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Fig. 8. First Communion (stumead.com)

Fig. 9. Black Cat

In the majority of cases the sexual act depicted in shunga take place in the bedroom, either in a private house, an inn or a brothel. But there is also a great diversity of locations. Sex While Cooking For example,..

Fig. 10. Bathroom (art.mirtesen.ru)

Reason For Making Art

The American artist Stu (Stuart) Mead received education at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he enrolled at 27. Collaboration with instructor Frank Gaard had a crucial meaning for his artistic development. The anarchic spirit of Gaard later allowed Mead to contribute to his Artpolice zine that was free of any censorship. As Lenka Klodová remarks in the preface to the collection of Mead’s works published by Divus, it was Gaard, who recommended Mead “to focus in his art on what he likes best” because “one reason for making art is that it can make you feel good.” Armed with this statement, questionable for an art historian but effective for an artist, Mead contributed to Artpolice from 1981 until the last issue of 1994. In addition to this, in 1991, they created a parallel zine, ɱaп Bag, which was focused on sexuality.