Artist''s book / catalogue documenting the "Fuck Paintings" series by Betty Tompkins. Essay by Martin Herbert. Includes list of works. ''Betty Tompkins'' ''Fuck Paintings'' were begun in the early 1970s and are based on surreptitiously obtained hardcore pornographic magazines, feature gynecological close-ups of penetration, and are painted in an extraordinary and gorgeous monochromatic palette. This is sex, but on an Olympian scale; it''s a distanced and far-from-dumb view of heterosexual coupling, but none the less erotic for that." -- publisher''s statement.