The Art of Eric Stanton: For the Man Who Knows His Place

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I worked obsessively for several years in my Greenwich Village apartment,” she remembers. “I was learning subject and style on the job, and was given considerable freedom by my art directors, [so] my creativity blossomed. The work was fun and I was making a living. I was titillated by being in a man’s world, as I just wasn’t supposed to be there. ” While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage fantasy chapter serials earned him underground fame. Stanton also worked with pioneering underground fetish art publishers, Leonard Burtman, the notorious Times Square publisher.

Over 200 original works by the pair are being exhibited together for the first time by TASCHEN Gallery, Los Angeles. Embrace Your Fantasies: Bizarre Life — The Art of Elmer Batters & Eric Stanton is running until 24 May. Would it be fair to say from bizarre culture? Or, specifically, from Stanton since he had been creating hooded characters for almost as long as he had been a fetish artist?” Some instances that Seves cites are not quite so convincing: if Ditko did them, he did them by dutifully imitating his studio-mate’s mannerisms to the extent that his own disappear. Or so it seems to me, but I’m scarcely a Ditko expert.STANTON’S DAUGHTER Amber wrote about her father’s contribution to Ditko’s creation of Spider-Man in an article, “A Tangled Web,” originally published in The Creativity of Steve Ditko (2012). She remembered watching with the family the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on tv when she was nine years old. As a giant balloon of Spider-Man appeared on the screen, her father exclaimed: "Would you believe that— I never would have thought," she quotes her father saying with amusement. The plot twist is that Dan had anonymously hired the girls himself as a publicity stunt, figuring he could overpower them and escape whenever he wished. When he regains consciousness, however, he finds himself helpless in the expert hands of the tame-azons.

Her signature style has been copied by many over the years, but no one draws the female form quite like she does. Arguably, her pinups surpass even Vargas’ in capturing a woman’s true erotic essence. As she approaches her 70th birthday this month, De Berardinis hasn’t slowed down, evolving and expanding the scope of her work with newer pop culture–driven creations that continue to redefine what is beautiful and sexy. She has always been attracted to drawing women, and when she was a little girl she even drew a Barbie-like character based on her mother (though Barbies didn’t actually exist yet). Something in Stanton’s psychological makeup dictated channeling and creating art as a means of attaining a proper balance and some measure of control in his life. The actual art he made—the artifact itself—was always less important than the process. [...] It was the process of making art that Stanton lived for; it was that process of exploration and discovery.This book is absolutely fabulous, filled with bondage, erotica and torture of all kinds. Sorayama's ability to capture the erotic essence of a female is astonishing. His attention to detail and creativity left me in awe. I always worked with water and tempera. I never liked oils. I can't stand the thought of taking more than an hour or two on a piece. The cover illustrations were in no way connected directly to the text of the novels. Sometimes Malcolm would describe a specific scene but the titles - Strange Hungers, Pleasure Bound, Something Extra - never had anything to do with the story. I see it reflected in the men and women who walk toward me at my openings; I see it in their fashion, and as tattoos worn on their skin,” she proclaims. “The best paintings, the ones that most resonate with my fans, live on in popular culture, in movies, on ephemeral objects. I see military men and women hang on to these objects as symbols of life, passion and love. People tell me they’ve had fun through the fantasies I’ve painted in their sexual lives, and say they’ve met their life partners and made babies!” After her father’s death, she found Ditko’s phone number and called him. She wanted to know if he had any memories he could share. He couldn’t remember anything, she reported, and he denied that her father had anything to do with creating Spider-Man. Spider-Man’s face mask is unusual among superheroes. The mask covers the entire face. “Prior to Spider-Man,” Seves writes, “heroes had open faces (like Superman) or half-faces (like Batman).”

In 1963, Stanton did a few very clever drawings for the Selbee magazine, Female Mimics. These are from Female Mimics 1, Female Mimics 2 and Female Mimics 3. This speech makes me smile each time I read it. Can you imagine anyone actually taking like this? How about her statement that feminine attire denotes low stature? Doesn’t that seem inconsistent with ‘his inferior body’? Wouldn’t looking like a woman cause him to gain stature in the eyes of the ‘Tame-azons’? His text is accompanied throughout by lots and lots of illustrations, many in color, and Seves gives the histories of several of Stanton’s serials and tells their stories. The book is virtually an extensively annotated bibliography of Stanton’s life work. But it’s more than that. It’s also a detailed biography, a sketchy history of “the bizarre,” and an exhibition of Stanton’s ladies. Reproduction throughout is high quality. This time they happen to have a corset and maid’s uniform. I understand that this is a work of fiction, but at least try to make it believable. The damn corset even has a built in gaff with fake fur to simulate public hair. Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground by Richard Pérez Seves. Atglen, Schiffer Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-0764355424

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You should know better than to bring a weak and puny man into my presence without fitting female clothes on his inferior body! Take those torn clothes away from him and place feminine attire on him to denote his lowly present stature." Vor Bezirk Tainan-Annan - Vinyl / Turntables haben Taiwan verschoben - Die Ära des ökonomischen Starts Exotique magazine was published by Leonard Burtman in New York City between 1955 and 1959. Gene Bilbrew, also known by his pseudonym ENEG, was an artist who contributed work to Burtman's publications but was not the publisher. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotique_%28fetish_magazine%29 [Jun 2005] Book-length collections of Stanton comics have been translated into many foreign languages, including French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Additionally, Stanton's art was reprinted in the 1990s in comic books from Fantagraphics Books' imprint Eros Comix: The Kinky Hook (1991), Sweeter Gwen (1992), Confidential TV (1994), and Tops and Bottoms # 1 – 4 (1997). Individual issues were subtitled "Bound Beauty" (# 1), "Lady in Charge" (# 2), "Broken Engagement" (# 3), "Broken Engagement 2" (# 4).