Artsy Fartsy

Artsy Fartsy, Cultural History of the Fart is a fascinating overview of flatulence through human civilization and society. A cough, sneeze, hiccup, stomach rumble, burp, belch, and other bodily sounds cannot compete with the notoriety of the fart. Whether encountered live and in person, or through literature, television, cinema, art, and music, it may leave a lingering memory. The history of the fart in culture and society is a seldom told but remarkable tale. Although a natural and everyday occurrence, most of human society has considered it an unacceptable offense in the presence of others. Its release has had varied consequences, from inciting wars that led to the death of thousands, to the humorous entertainment of millions. 

This extensive volume provides an entertaining and informative survey of the often hidden influence of the fart on human history, culture, and society. Easy to read and colorfully illustrated, the book can be opened at random to unique entries, or read cover to cover. The knowledge gained will make the reader a fountain of cultural information that will certainly leave a lasting impression on others. A compendium of euphemisms of how to describe a fart without uttering the forbidden word, as well its translation into foreign languages, is also included. Additional famous quotations of the noted historical and cultural figures are incorporated to balance their reference to the lowly, but all-powerful, fart.

Preface Introduction Etymology - Origin of the Word Fart Physiology - Digestion and the Fart Chronology of Fart in the Arts Hieronymus Bosch Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Pieter Bruegel the Elder Medieval Manuscripts Francisco Goya Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart James Gillray Louis-Léopold Boilly Richard Newton Japanese Lithographs Edo Period Utagawa Kuniyoshi George Cruikshank S. Stoutshanks Richard Wagner Aubrey Beardsley Joseph Pujol (Le Pétomane) James Ensor Canadian Broadcast Corporation Salvador Dali Cinematic Arts Bollywood Hindi Movies Seinfeld Mr. Methane Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial The Lion King Cartoonists Children's Book Art The Simpsons Family Guy South Park Beavis & Butt-Head Chen Wenlin Ontario Ministry of Health Advertising & Marketing Chronology of Fart in History Bel-Phegor Bible Prophets Pythagoras Herodotus Hippocrates Aristotle Metrocles Cicero Claudius Seneca Flavius Josephus Plutarch Babylonian Talmud Elagabalus Whoopee Cushion Yoga St. Jerome Augustine of Hippo (St. Augustine) Islam Hadith Sir Thomas Moore Desiderius Erasmus Martin Luther HRH Queen Elizabeth I Michel de Montaigne Henry Ludlow Oliver Cromwell Lord John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Benjamin Franklin Thomas Blount Immanuel Kant Charles James Fox Abraham Lincoln Sir Richard Burton John Gregory Bourke Sigmund Freud T.E. Lawrence of Arabia Sir Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Josef Stalin Sir Robert Hutchinson Charles de Gaulle Lyndon Baines Johnson Ronald Reagan H.M. Queen Elizabeth II George W. Bush Muammar Gaddafi H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet Global Warming Chronology of Fart in Literature Bel-Phegor Aristophanes Petronius Marcus Valerius Martialis Arabian Nights Dante Alighieri Rutebeuf William Langland Geoffrey Chaucer François Rabelais John Heywood William Shakespeare Francois Béroalde de Verville Ben Jonson John Donne Sir John Suckling John Milton John Aubrey Daniel Defoe Lord John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Jonathon Swift Voltaire Henry Fielding Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin William Blake Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Jacques Collin de Plancy Honoré de Balzac Victor Hugo Edward Lear Charles Pierre Baudelaire Gustave Flaubert Sir Richard Burton Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) Émile Zola James Joyce D. H. Lawrence Aldous Huxley Henry Miller Ernest Hemingway Thomas Wolfe W.H. Auden Roald Dahl Samuel Beckett J.D. Salinger Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Norman Mailer William Styron George MacDonald Fraser John Barth John Kennedy Toole Philip Roth George Carlin Sir Salman Rushdie James Patterson Iain Banks Howard Stern Melina Marchetta Children's Books Colloquialism, Idiom, & Synonym of Fart Fart in Foreign Languages Afterword Index