Women's bodies. What artists wanted to make of us.
Albin Michel| N° d'inventaire | 23483 |
| Format | 20 x 27 |
| Détails | 176 p., publisher's hardcover with dust jacket. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782226455970 |
Since 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 Who Look at Us, up to the 1960s, and the third, These Women Who Look at Themselves, begins with the 1970s, when a major revolution took place for women artists who now represented themselves. This book therefore also invites us to a history of the evolution of the status of women, like a journey to the land of sexual and political emancipation, from Camille Claudel to Louise Bourgeois, and from Frida Kahlo to Cindy Sherman.
Since 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 Who Look at Us, up to the 1960s, and the third, These Women Who Look at Themselves, begins with the 1970s, when a major revolution took place for women artists who now represented themselves. This book therefore also invites us to a history of the evolution of the status of women, like a journey to the land of sexual and political emancipation, from Camille Claudel to Louise Bourgeois, and from Frida Kahlo to Cindy Sherman.