The Big Butt Book

The female butt, also known as the tush, culo, or derrière, has always been a source of fascination and devotion. It is primarily functional, but it also serves aesthetic purposes. The ancient Greeks worshipped the temple of Aphrodite Kallipygos, and the female rump has been an object of worship in most of the southern hemisphere. The Big Butt Book explores this perennial fascination with female booty, featuring over 400 photos from 1900 to the present day and interviews with porn icon John Stagliano, filmmaker Tinto Brass, artist Robert Crumb, bootylicious butt queens Buffie The Body, Coco, and Watermelon Woman, and Eve Howard and her life-long spanking obsession.

Format: Hardback
Length: 372 pages
Publication date: 14 August 2023
Publisher: Taschen GmbH

The female butt, tush, culo, or derrière has always inspired awe, fantasy, and slavish devotion. Curiously, 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 grapefruits in her hip pockets. Or, as rapper Sir Mix-a-lot proclaimed, My anaconda don't want none, unless you've got buns, hun.

Having 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 Jennifer Lopez, 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.

The Big Butt Book explores this perennial fascination with female booty — 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 Elmer Batters, Ellen von Unwerth, Jean-Paul Goude, Ralph Gibson, Richard Kern, Jan Saudek, Ed Fox, and Terr.

Weight: 3226g
Dimension: 332 x 321 x 43 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783836596565
Edition number: Multilingual ed