Love and Desire.
Edited by William A. Ewing.
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999.
400 pp.,
300 duotone and color illustrations,
5¾x8¼".
The long-awaited sequel to Ewing's classic, The Body [CI071S $29.95], is packaged in a similar translucent slipcase, Love and Desire is an equally accomplished meditation on intimacy of all sorts: sexual, erotic, familial, casual, and formal. Ewing has a delightful sense of his material allowing him to incorporate wide ranging materials while maintaining an alluring cohesion.