Le corps des femmes. Ce que les artistes ont voulu faire de nous. beaux arts Douze ans les séparent

Douze ans les séparent

limited editions alongside manuscripts by the poet and numerous works by the seventy or so artists who collaborated on these publications

poésie et religion étaient étroitement liées l’une à l’autre

This book presents them clearly and educationally

Le corps des femmes. Ce que les artistes ont voulu faire de nous. beaux arts Douze ans les séparentSince prehistory, with the arrival of the Hottentot arrivals, women have been the center and medium of all fantasies. Goddess or whore, virgin or witch, virago or odalisque, they have been staged, illuminated, overexposed: their bodies, all parts of them, and their faces, through an essentially masculine gaze. The first part of this book, The Woman Looked at, goes up to the moment when Courbet and Manet revolutionized the gaze, the second, The Women