XL- Masterworks Edition Hardcover – 1 April 2014

This book from the Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama is filled of amazing artwork of mostly naked women and sexy robots. The pictures is very explicit. And if anyone has a problem with that, and possibly find this book in a friend's house and know about it's content... DON'T OPEN THE BOOK. For everyone else who are interested in art and realistic artwork this is a given choise.

This is quite an incredible book and collection of artworks from Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama. Publisher Edition Skylight had actually published the first edition of the book in 2010 as a 448-page hardcover. With this new edition, a couple more pages of artworks were added.It's one heck of a tome. Huge, about 9 by 12 inches, hardcover, 464 pages thick. The paper quality and binding are great.The book's quite heavy so there might be additional weight surcharge depending on your shipping method and where you ship to.There's not much text so it's basically art throughout. The pages are packed with huge reproductions of Sorayama's beautiful erotic art plus the shiny chrome robots. It's just so awe-inspiring to look at so much high quality art.Sorayama has a masterly ability to draw beautiful women. Needless to say, many of the images are explicit. There are ladies in their evocative poses as well as scenes of bondage.The technical prowess as an artist is at full display page after page. The details are amazing such as the way he draws the textures of the skin, clothing, or design of the bondage equipment, how he handles metallic chrome texture, lighting and colouring. The realism is fantastic.Unfortunately, the artworks are not captioned so there's no way to know when they were created. It will be quite unbelievable to know that he's this good even at the start of his career.Overall, it's a stunning collection of work from Sorayama. Those who are into erotic art or pin-ups should definitely check out this book.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link. Usually I would post a flipping-page video but the images are too explicit so I have the video only on my blog.)

Artikel war neuwertig und noch eingeschweißt, shr gut verpackt und wurde schon am nächsten Tag zugestellt. Gerne wieder.

la sur-couverture était tout bonnement coupée en deux sur toute la longueur, pour un objet de collection c'est révoltant. l'ouvrage reste une très belle référence du maître japonais.

Four hundred eighty pages of a large and heavy book. Scintillating, mesmerising and awesome. The best of all the art books I have. I have Robert McGinnis, Gennadiy Koufay, Barbara Jensen, Boris Vallejo, Lucie Bell, Jose Cano, Nik Guerra, Bruce Colero, Jose Nido, Peter Driben, Elvgren and Varga. Maybe 15 odd pages of text - rest beautifully crafted art. Superb composition, poses, props and fantasy. It took nearly four hours to go through the book.Caveat: It is a book for mature readers(?). About 90% are of females of which 90% are nudes - top or bottom or both exposed. Some explicit pics. The book may be categorised as a softcore pornographic illustrations masterpiece. Not a coffee table book.Value for money for such a production.

Grande volume di un grande maestro .Una fantastica raccolta di illustrazioni , un mondo pieno di bellezza e tecnica , associato all'erotismo ginoide e androide , mai volgare . Il tomo presenta varie sezioni, rappresentative dei temi cari al grande illustratore che, sfidando la tecnologia che impazza , continua ad affascinare il suo modo di usare il colore e la sua tecnica pittorica portata ad un livello estremo , come testimonianza di genio , e di un'antica scuola e mestiere .

Huge, heavy, thick and packed to the brim with Sorayama goodness. Anyone interested in this already knows what they are getting into --- this "review" is concerned with the presentation, which is top notch. The only way this could be better is if it were even bigger . . .