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The Boy

Paperback • 2003 • English

The Boy

By Germaine Greer

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Conventional wisdom has it that in visual culture the female body, not the male, is viewed as the primary object of desire. Germaine Greer argues that until the nineteenth century the image of the female body was not drawn from life but constructed on aesthetic principles. The naked body that was instead studied and portrayed with heart-stopping immediacy in hundreds of guises, most of them to some extent erotic, some of them sadistic, is that of the boy. In exploring the iconic ideal of the bea...Show more

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ISBN

9780500238097

Publisher

Thames & Hudson

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

The Boy

Format

Paperback

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