Le corps des femmes. Ce que les artistes ont voulu faire de nous. beaux arts limited editions alongside manuscripts by

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

This book presents them clearly and educationally

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thanks to its collections from the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro

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Le corps des femmes. Ce que les artistes ont voulu faire de nous. beaux arts limited editions alongside manuscripts bySince 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