Iris, Messenger of the Gods
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"See also Linda Nochlin, "Courbet's L'origine du monde: The Origin without an Original," October 37 (1986), pp. 77-86. Anne M. Wagner, in a superb discussion of Auguste Rodin's sculpture, Iris, Messenger of the Gods (ca. 1890), which represents Iris with her legs thrust apart and vulva open, notes that "neither the body's substance nor its activity have anything to do with the sculpted vocabulary of the feminine current at the time," and considers whether, despite the frankly phallocentric ..." --Body work: objects of desire in modern narrative, Peter Brooks, 1993 |
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Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993) is a book by Peter Brooks.
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