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red, provocative, and shamelessly enjoyable, The Rear View is a celebration of the behind, ranging from its physical evolution to its history as a source of artistic and literary inspiration and as a barometer of social attitudes.
The ancient Greeks revered the buttocks as being an aspect of the divine and portrayed them enthusiastically on marble statuary. With the Christian era, however, depiction of the nude figure sank into shameful ignominy until the fifteenth century, when Florentine artists once more raised the bottom to subliminal heights, from which lofty eminence it was dashed by the prudish Victorians, who found everything from the waist down a source of embarrassment. Today dress designers decree that the bottom should once more be the focus of attention, and no dedicated followers of fashion can afford to neglect their rear view--or this well-rounded appraisal of it.
Jean-Luc Hennig, a French linguist and essayist, begins the book by writing that "Buttocks
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The ancient Greeks revered the buttocks as being an aspect of the divine and portrayed them enthusiastically on marble statuary. With the Christian era, however, depiction of the nude figure sank into shameful ignominy until the fifteenth century, when Florentine artists once more raised the bottom to subliminal heights, from which lofty eminence it was dashed by the prudish Victorians, who found everything from the waist down a source of embarrassment. Today dress designers decree that the bottom should once more be the focus of attention, and no dedicated followers of fashion can afford to neglect their rear view--or this well-rounded appraisal of it.
Jean-Luc Hennig, a French linguist and essayist, begins the book by writing that "Buttocks
Jean-Luc Hennig is a French professor of grammar and was formerly director of the cultural section of Libération and editor-in-chief of L'Echo des Savanes and then Rolling Stone, and has worked on a number of other newspapers. His books include Morgue, le Voyeur, a study of the Swiss national character, and, most recently, a literary and erotic dictionary of fruits and vegetables.
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- PublisherSouvenir Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0285633031
- ISBN 13 9780285633032
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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