Eros / Lubalin & Ginzburg

First published in 1962, Eros was a stunningly designed hardcover "magbook" devoted to eroticism. The design of Eros by Herb Lubalin has made it a clean, elegant literary and lithographic work of art. It has an oversized format and printed on both matte and glossy paper, and with hardback covers, making it more like a book rather than a quarterly magazine. Art that addressed the extent to which the erotic was a theme, throughout the ages, by major painters and sculptors, were shown in Eros, along with bold and sensitive layouts for photographic portfolios by modern photographers. Eos, was shocking and titillating erotica for the time but mild by today's fare. Eros was the Greek god of love, and Ginzburg's magazines were devoted to stories and articles about love and sex. While Playboy and other men's magazines of the time catered mostly to male fantasies, Eros (named for the Greek god of love and desire) covered a wide swath of sexuality in history, politics, art and literature. Mr