The Pinacothèque de Paris, the first private Parisian museum, welcomes The Kama Sutra: Spirituality and erotism in Indian art exhibition from October to January 2015.

Written in the 4th century AD and attributed to a Brahmin, the Kama Sutra is one of the most important medieval Hindu texts.

Although the work has been mislabeled as a pornographic book, this is not the case, as the exhibition at the Pinacothèque explains. It is divided into seven sections (adhikarana) dealing with: society and social concepts, sexual union, the wife, extra-marital relations, courtesans, the arts of seduction.

Around 330 outstanding works will be presented in the exhibition, including works of Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar, maharana of Udaipur and the remarkable collection of Beroze and Michel Sabatier. Sculptures, paintings, miniatures, objects of daily life, “pillow books”, illustrated works that were offered to the newlyweds until the 19th century, in order to give them an erotic education, will be included. The exhibition is organized according to the seven sections of the Kama-Sutra.

The exhibition, unadvised for minors, will explain the erotic aesthetics specific to the erotic aesthetics of Indian cultural life and to Hinduism.

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