Le corps des femmes. Ce que les artistes ont voulu faire de nous. beaux arts no more than lightning

no more than lightning

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

the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne has chosen to highlight one of the most significant episodes of the turn of the 19th century: the contribution of the Viennese art scene to the birth of modern art

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

Le corps des femmes. Ce que les artistes ont voulu faire de nous. beaux arts no more than lightningSince 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