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The Breast Book : An Intimate and Curious History by Maura Spiegel and Lithe Sebesta (2002, Trade Paperback)

Introducing the chunky, obsessive book of Breasts . Using over 600 illustrations and photographs, The Breast Book is about changing social mores and attitudes, from classical Greek statuary to the Victorian corset to Twiggy to Pamela Lee. The Breast Book is about envy and etiquette, differences-why 90 percent of French women do not breastfeed, for example-and adornment, including make-up, tattooing, nipple rings, and more. Breasts is about politics, art, religion, kitsch, and burning the bra. About perceptions-90 percent of men prefer a size C over a D. About high art-whether the humanist breast in Renaissance painting or its feminist send-up by photographer Cindy Sherman-and pop art, from Vargas girls to World War II bomber mascots to Madonna. The Breast Book is about getting them right-falsies, bust improvers, gadgets, pumps, and creams-and showing them off, like Jayne Mansfield's, immortalized in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. A work of pop culture in itself, The Breast Book includes recurring visual elements like Time Lines and Great Moments of the Breast, plus Titbits-fascinating trivia running throughout.

Book Title
Breast Book : an Intimate and Curious History
Author
Maura Spiegel, Lithe Sebesta
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Culture, Women's Studies, Anatomy, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Art, Medical, Social Science
Number of Pages
512 Pages

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