Image of the Body

"In this wide-ranging work, Michael Gill traces one of the most enduring subjects of art from the first scratched and sculpted figures of the cave people to contemporary feminist reworkings of the nude."--the publisher. Here are pictures of the human form by artists thoughout time, from cave-dwellers to this century's artists, such as Giacometti, Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Picasso, Willem de Kooning, along with several photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and one by Edward Weston. A fascinating and thought-provoking book.