Elmer Batters / Laure Adler - Legs That Dance to Elmer's Tune / Le Corps des Femmes / Sens - 1997

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Elmer Batters: Legs That Dance To Elmer's Tune
Elmer Batters (November 24, 1919 – June 25, 1997) was a pioneering fetish photographer specializing in capturing artistic images of women with a focus on stockings, legs, and feet: ahead of his time in popularizing foot fetish imagery as erotic entertainment. Batters began publishing his photographs himself, and since the early 1960s, his work has been featured in magazines such as Leg-O-Rama, Nylon Doubletake, and Tip Top, to name a few.

2. Laure Adler: The Body of Women
Since prehistory, with the appearance of the Hottentot Venus, women have been at the center and support of all fantasies. Goddess or whore, virgin or witch, virago or odalisque, she has been staged, lit up, and hyperexposed: her body, all parts of her body, and her face, through an essentially male gaze.
The first part of this work, 'The Woman Observed,' goes up to the moment when Courbet and Manet revolutionized the gaze; the second, 'Women Who Look at Us,' extends to the 1960s; and the third, 'Women Who Look at Themselves,' begins with the 1970s, when a major revolution took place for women artists, who now represent themselves. It is thus also a history of the evolving status of women that this book invites us to explore, like a journey to the Land of sexual and political emancipation, from Camille Claudel to Louise Bourgeois, and from Frida Kahlo to Cindy Sherman.

The Hidden Meaning of Painting
How to view, understand, and learn to love masterpieces from the history of painting. The iconographic richness and the didactic synthesis spirit of this book reveal to the reader the hidden meaning of paintings by deciphering themes, references, and symbols, and briefly recounting the history of the artists who created them. In a skillfully arranged double page for each work, the authors guide the reader's gaze across the entire representation and, through numerous reproduced details or works from the same period, into the very heart of the painting. Concise boxes on history, mythology, folklore, and some quotes finally help to deepen the understanding of the selected masterpieces.
From 14th-century religious paintings to self-portraits by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, there is no doubt that the reader will find in this work an inexhaustible source of information and inspiration.