“The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art” HumansArtBookBodyEyeTermWealthWrittenFiguresTypeReaderMajorsFemaleTrainWesternMalesProportionCategoriesSophisticatedRepresentationIntroductionEvaluateOutlinesImposingIllustrationBody Types Author:Camille Paglia
“The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.” MenEvilHe ManBattleFemaleMethodWesternGood And Evil Author:Warren Farrell
“After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.” MenTryingDoePurposePleasureKeysCivilizationDemandFemaleIslamWesternDenyGuaranteesDistinctionMisogynyPillarsSlenderMutilation Author:Mark Steyn
“This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.” IdeasNightCultureUniverseEvilBlackWaterWhitePerfectSunFireMoonConceptsFemaleOppositesHarmonyWesternMalesForgottenChinaSymbolsWheelsTaoWestern CultureDichotomyYangYin And Yang Author:Tiziano Terzani
“Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.” ArtCultureWomenPowerFemaleVictimSilentWesternDenyResistanceIslamicProtestWomen EmpowermentContinuingTestimonyRepressionResistingUnspokenDepictionMuslim WomenFemale PowerIslamic Culture Author:Shirin Neshat
“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.” IfsLooksArtSchoolDifficultBreakPaintingDutyDrawsFemaleExcitingWesternMalesUpsetFridayTabooTuesdayArt School Author:Peter Greenaway
“The big lamas coming from Tibet, Ladakh, India - everywhere - have been very friendly. But I don't figure in their world. For one thing, being Western puts you outside the limits. A token female doesn't hurt - there's only one.” WorldHas BeensBigsHurtOne ThingFiguresLimitsFemaleIndiaWesternFriendlyTokensLamaTibetLadakh Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.” NeedsHumansChildrenValuesRaceHalfFemaleWesternDiscriminationHuman RaceHuman NeedsWestern Values Author:Mary Robinson
“Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.” IfsWantKindLittlesWantedHumanityBitsChurchOpinionChangedDivineLike YouProjectsLatePerceptionLittle BitConceptsFemaleDirectUltimateWesternToo LateCyclesOrthodoxFeminineDisappointedWant MeMaryMentorMysticalVirginsHis LoveVirgin MaryDivine FeminineWestern SocietyBeing DisappointedOrthodox Church Author:Laura Marling
“I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and Western, which it is still at the moment. There will be more female artists in the mix. I think we'll see art forms explored through different media - the Internet, television, books, even. We'll see art produced in forms and media that we haven't seen yet.” ThinkingWorldArtBookDifferentMomentsArtistInternetFemaleWesternSlow Down Author:Will Gompertz