The Little Big Butt Book - Hardcover

The Kama Sutra gives detailed instructions on how to spank it. Contemporary Italians touch it for luck before placing a bet. Americans are having it cosmetically enhanced at rates approaching breast enlargement surgery. The female butt, tush, culo, or derriere has always inspired awe, fantasy, and slavish devotion, and now TASCHEN offers a more portable, affordable alter to this beloved body part with The Little Big Butt Book. According to biologists big butts exist to balance our bodies while running, but ask any pygophiliac - as fundament fans are clinically termed - and you'll get a more basic answer: "My anaconda don't want none, unless you've got buns, hun." When Sir Mix-a-Lot wrote that line in 1991 big butt appreciation was severely limited in breast-obsessed American society. Today, the fully formed fanny is enjoying a massive resurgence, thanks to hip hop culture and Kim Kardashian. The Little Big Butt Book explores this perennial fascination with female booty - from small and taut to large and sumptuous - in a new, smaller, affordable edition with all the original photos and interviews intact. Enjoy 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, Terry Richardson and Sante D'Orazio. of butts ranging from petite Pam Anderson's to sumptuous Serena Williams', are contextualized by interviews with porn icon John (Buttman) Stagliano, filmmaker Tinto Brass, artist Robert Crumb, bootylicious butt queens Buffie The Body, Coco and Brazil's Watermelon Woman, plus Eve Howard and her life-long spanking obsession.

Dian Hanson produced a variety of men's magazines from 1976 to 2001, including Juggs, Outlaw Biker and Leg Show, before becoming TASCHEN's Sexy Book editor. Her 60+ books for TASCHEN include The Art of Pin-up and Psychedelic Sex. She lives in Los Angeles.