Fascination with the human female's relationship with apes
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There is a fascination of the human female's relationship with apes.
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fin de siècle
A number of fin de siècle artworks betray a fascination with human female/non-human primate contact.
While precursors include the apelike ogre in Fuseli's The Nightmare (1781), the first works in this category are Emmanuel Frémiet's sculptures Gorilla Carrying off a Woman (1887) and An Orang Outan Strangling a Young Borneo Savage (1895).
Then, in 1902, there is Hostile Forces, a detail of the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt.
Alfred Kubin produced at least three works in this category: Lubricity (1902), One Woman For All[1] (1900-01) and The Ape (1903-1906).
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Later appearances in literature and film
- His Monkey Wife (1930), a story by John Collier
- Frances Gifford with ape in 'Nyoka, The Jungle Girl'
- King Kong (1933), a film
- The Woman and The Ape (1996), a novel by Peter Høeg
- Max, Mon Amour (1986), a film by Nagisa Oshima
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See also
- 19th century preoccupation with human animal contact
- King Kong
- L'Amour (photograph) by William Mortensen
- Apes in literature
- Eros in the 19th century
- Eros in the 20th century
- Fin de siècle
- Why Women Love Apes by Stine Jensen
- The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art (2017) by Roni Grén
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