New in the Pocket Perspectives series, Linda Nochlin's exploration of the ways in which fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world.

In this classic essay, renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world. The work of an original thinker at the height of her powers, it remains a thought-provoking and compelling read.