Fetish and Fetters: A Selection of Art Work by the HunBill "The Hun" Schmeling has been pushing us to our limits artistically for over 30 years. His vision of men echoes that of the late Tom Of Finland, in that enormously exaggerated physiques with outrageously proportioned genitalia threaten or face peril on every page. Fluids spew, sweat flies, lips leer. This is danger in pen and ink. But there is something else at work here. Collected among the more than 100 images are perilous situations and the men are frequently at the edge in their playing, but The Hun's work often carries a wickedly subversive sense of humor. If you read the captions on the "walls" of some of these drawings, you'll find a delightfully (and I mean this in the most complimentary of fashions) sick mind at work, with a host of bad puns and backwoods humor. It makes for some strange juxtapositions in a book filled with so many images of terror and pain. Probably one of the most exciting things about The Hun's work is that it runs right up against taboo items and slams into them with no holds barred. There are scenes here that will cause you to question exactly why these images stimulate you, because they are most certainly NOT politically correct. If The Hun can keep you at the edge of your seat now, as he has through four decades, then you know exactly why "Fetishes And Fetters" is such an essential, must have book. |
