![]() ![]() So perhaps it’s not surprising that when he launched his flagship adult magazine in May 1976, he decided to call it ‘High Society’.īorn in October 1941, Carl Ruderman graduated from New York University with a degree in International Banking and Finance. Ruderman is a regular donor to the Cancer Research and Treatments Foundation, and has long contributed to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation”). Ruderman helped unite the leaders of Egypt, Greece and Israel for a first-ever promotion of regional tourism”), and his philanthropy (“Mr. Ruderman has supported numerous governments in the development of travel education programs, and contributed to programs in Mexico, Jamaica, Spain, Israel” etc.), his influence (“Mr. Ruderman is the Chairman of Elite Traveler, which covers the hottest locations, best hotel suites, jets, and luxury watches to name just a few items,” and “whose readership annual income averages $2.2 million”), his interest in travel (“Mr. If you look up Carl Ruderman, you’ll likely find glowing accounts of his business (“Mr. They should not to be used or reproduced for any commercial gain. Publications are being shared here purely for the purpose of research. Magazines are fully searchable use the icon displayed in each magazine to search by keyword. If you are viewing on a phone, view in landscape orientation. Due to the fact that the magazines are scanned in high definition, allow a little time for each page to load. Check back for more digitized adult film magazine collections soon.Ĭlick on the covers below to access the full magazines. You can find The Rialto Report‘s growing library of digitized resources by clicking ‘ Library‘ in our site navigation menu. This article was written with the assistance of a number of people who worked on the magazine in the first year. On this installment of The Rialto Report, we look back at the first year of High Society to see how the magazine started, and we have an issue-by-issue guide – including newly digitized copies of each magazine. Bolla, and Annie Sprinkle, and detailed adult film reviews. It’s initial publisher was Sue Richards, also known as adult film star ‘ Bree Anthony‘, it featured articles by Gloria Leonard, interviews with the likes of Jennifer Welles, Bobby Astyr, and Jamie Gillis, picture spreads featuring performers such as C.J. His interest in the nude and emaciated body of the penitent saint culminates with St.High Society was one of the most successful adult magazines published in New York in the 1970s, and had a number of connections to the adult film industry. Sebastian in the half-length format further illustrate El Greco's preoccupation with contorted and elongated bodily forms. ![]() Sebastian from the Palencia Cathedral and related variations on the nude representation of St. John the Baptist panels, as well as the Resurrection from the side altar. From the begining of his altarpiece endeavors in Toledo, the San Domingo retable stands out, filled as it is with idiosyncratic modalities for expressing narrative meaning with recourse to nude portrayals in the Trinity and St. The undisguised eroticism of Titian's paintings, most especially of the Poesie series, enthralled Philip II, despite the king's preference for characteristicly Spanish restraint.Įl Greco took the depiction of nudity to new lengths by reconfiguring the body of the saint into an entirely consistent religious image. Although Titian was solely guided by his own talent, he culled from a variety of sources for bodily representation, including antique sculptures and cameos, as well as Michelangelo, Correggio, Parmigianino, and engravings by Primaticcio, Rosso Fiorentino, and others. The reception of Titian's painting is relevant to the tensions over sensual expression in Spain. ![]() ![]() The debate separated supporters, who endorsed the ideal body as a critical topos for representation, from those who opposed the notion that the nude should contribute to the development of religious imagery. A highly divisive topic in the late sixteenth-century art world, nudity deepened the split between the inherited and the reformed positions. Through a critical dialogue with Michelangelo's work, El Greco's pictorial art establishes gracile nudity as an instrument of religious art.Įl Greco executed religious compositions that engaged with particular intensity the controversy over nudity. El Greco's treatment of the nude expresses his response to the scathing criticisms leveled against the Last Judgment, a response first articulated in the wax and clay modelli produced in his studio. This chapter investigates the substantial issue of El Greco's approach to the depiction of nude bodies in an age when censorial measures were taken against nude portrayals – most acutely against Michelangelo's Last Judgment. ![]()
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