Dialogue between the soul and the naked body

Author: Leng Shan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This is not a book solely about Marcel Duchamp, nor is it a comprehensive discussion of 20th-century female models. This book describes and studies ten important artists of the 20th century and the erotic, emotional, and sensitive themes expressed in their works. It showcases ten ways in which psychologically complex artists perceive women. This is a book about artists and their models, a portrayal of these artistic bachelors and their "bride" models. This is a book about artists and their models, a portrayal of these artistic bachelors and their "bride" models. The book describes and studies ten important artists of the 20th century and the erotic, emotional, and sensitive themes expressed in their works. It showcases ten ways in which psychologically complex artists perceive women. This is an artistic examination and contemplation of ten male selves toward the other half of humanity, reflected, solidified, condensed, and abstracted through artistic techniques in their respective works. Here are their complex feelings and complexes toward women, including admiration, passionate love, desire, reverence, fear, indifference, transcendence, and even hatred.