{"product_id":"big-butt-book","title":"The Big Butt Book","description":"The Kama Sutra gives detailed instructions on how to spank it. Contemporary Italians touch it for luck before placing a bet. Americans are having it cosmetically enhanced at rates approaching breast enlargement surgery. \u003cb\u003eThe female butt, tush, culo, or derrière has always inspired awe, fantasy, and slavish devotion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCuriously, its primary purpose is functional rather than aesthetic: butts balance our bodies while running, according to biologists. But ask any pygophiliac-as fundament fans are clinically termed-and you'll get the same answer: female hindquarters exist to please the eye, the hands, and parts south. A pert posterior causes instant arousal, as Zora Neale Hurston observed in Their Eyes Were Watching God: \"The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets.\" Or, as rapper Sir Mix-a-lot proclaimed, \"My anaconda don't want none, unless you've got buns, hun.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving all but disappeared from western culture in the breast-obsessed second half of the 20th century, the fully formed fanny is currently enjoying a massive resurgence, attributed by some to American actress \u003cb\u003eJennifer Lopez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e by others to the rise of booty-centric hip hop culture. Yet this rage for shapely butts is nothing new. The ancient Greeks worshipped at the temple of Aphrodite Kallipygos, Goddess of the Beautiful Buttocks, while a womanly rump has always been an object of worship in most of the southern hemisphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Big Butt Book explores this perennial fascination with female booty\u003c\/b\u003e-from small and taut to large and sumptuous-in the fourth installment of Dian Hanson's critically acclaimed body parts series. Over 400 photos from 1900 to the present day, including works by \u003cb\u003eElmer Batters, Ellen von Unwerth, Jean-Paul Goude, Ralph Gibson, Richard Kern, Jan Saudek, Ed Fox, Terry Richardson\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSante D'Orazio,\u003c\/b\u003e of butts ranging from petite \u003cb\u003ePam Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e's to sumptuous \u003cb\u003eSerena Williams\u003c\/b\u003e', are contextualized by interviews with porn icon \u003cb\u003eJohn (Buttman) Stagliano\u003c\/b\u003e, filmmaker \u003cb\u003eTinto Brass,\u003c\/b\u003e artist \u003cb\u003eRobert Crumb,\u003c\/b\u003e bootylicious butt queens \u003cb\u003eBuffie The Body, Coco\u003c\/b\u003e and Brazil's \u003cb\u003eWatermelon Woman,\u003c\/b\u003e plus \u003cb\u003eEve Howard\u003c\/b\u003e and her life-long spanking obsession.","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42523158183972,"sku":"9783836596565","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783836596565.jpg?v=1778616953","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/big-butt-book","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}