Lust For The Devil: The Erotic-Satanic Art Of Felicien Rops
by: Joris-Karl Huysmans and Felicien Rops

Softcover. Wet Angel Books, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. The first true flowering of Satanism in erotic art came with the Belgian artist Felicien Rops (1833-1898). Rops, who had met Charles Baudelaire in Paris in 1864 and subsequently become a devoted disciple, thereafter commingled elements of death, prostitution and the Satanic in his work, particularly in his 5-picture series Les Sataniques of 1882. Pictures in this series such as The Sacrifice and Calvary are clear and explicit representations of Black Mass and Satanism which still retain their original power to shock and disturb. These images, as well as the others in Les Sataniques, can be found in Lust For The Devil, which collects around 80 of Rops' most outlandish and confrontational works, including a section of 30 colour plates.