This is not a story about art. Although Malvina Hoffman was known as America’s Rodin, her story is one of adventure, intrigue, and life among the greatest artists and powerbrokers during the early to mid-twentieth century. Every action Malvina undertook broke glass ceilings. She smashed through her fears to achieve the impossible, many times over. She was an inspiration to all.
She read the Laura Ingalls Wilder book as a bedtime story to her mother, a reversal of the way the tale had been related in this very room, some thirty years before. . . . No, her mother would beat the system; it was a joke on hospice.
Blending social history and personal experiences, an exploration of how people try to control their bodies with food reveals the struggle everyone experiences with their own bodies.--
a celebration of beautiful bodies from different women shot over a 6 year period.
Explains the composition and workings of the bodies of plants, animals, and humans.
Beautiful Bodies is a masterful and compelling work of living, breathing history.
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Photographs that are neither digitally augmented nor airbrushed show what women really look like after giving birth and encourage new mothers to embrace their bodies as they are.
Take a step into a visual bliss and be swept away by an ocean of intricate imagery. This photo book contains a vast selection of the best images to ignite your imagination and show you the brilliant world of visual imagery in all its glory.
The honest and provocative interviews included in this book uncover these women's feelings about their bodies, their reasons for attempting to change or come to terms with them, and the reactions of others in their lives.
In this volume, contributors from a range of perspectives - evolutionary psychology to anthropology, sociology to cognitive and motivational psychology - explore questions of what our attractiveness preferences are and why we find certain ...