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This could be so much more.
It is a collection of classic and vintage commercial art paired with quotes and some fawning text that sounds like it was written by an articulate teenager.
They are nice pictures, but they are very repetitive. Look, the backside of a woman bathing (or dancing, but same pose). All white except in "other cultures", which is still mostly light-skinned and European artists. Gotta get the harem paintings in though! Very little sculpture, very few photographs.
For some reason I had thought this was written by a woman, but within the first chapter the words made it clear it wasn't and by the third the images just confirmed it.
There is no "case" presented beyond "real men find them more attractive". While I'm glad for a different view of beauty, having women presented as sex objects still gets old, especially when it's just one male's view of a different "standard"
It's a pretty book, but repetitive, very white, limited in its presentation and the text adds little. It isn't a celebration of curves or a case for curves. The art is pretty but does not come together to present a celebration or case either.
Other than in this day and age, any collection of non-skinny women is amazing, but that's more to do with this day and age than the care of the selection here.
It is a collection of classic and vintage commercial art paired with quotes and some fawning text that sounds like it was written by an articulate teenager.
They are nice pictures, but they are very repetitive. Look, the backside of a woman bathing (or dancing, but same pose). All white except in "other cultures", which is still mostly light-skinned and European artists. Gotta get the harem paintings in though! Very little sculpture, very few photographs.
For some reason I had thought this was written by a woman, but within the first chapter the words made it clear it wasn't and by the third the images just confirmed it.
There is no "case" presented beyond "real men find them more attractive". While I'm glad for a different view of beauty, having women presented as sex objects still gets old, especially when it's just one male's view of a different "standard"
It's a pretty book, but repetitive, very white, limited in its presentation and the text adds little. It isn't a celebration of curves or a case for curves. The art is pretty but does not come together to present a celebration or case either.
Other than in this day and age, any collection of non-skinny women is amazing, but that's more to do with this day and age than the care of the selection here.
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