I could have fancied her
Angela Carter, 16 February 1989
Beauty in History: Society, Politics and Personal Appearance c. 1500 to the Present
by Arthur Marwick.
Thames and Hudson, 480 pp., £18.95, September 1988,0 500 25101 0 Show More
by Arthur Marwick.
Thames and Hudson, 480 pp., £18.95, September 1988,
“... I enjoyed rather more than did your contributor, Janet Watts (LRB, 8 December 1988), Kenneth Clark published a contribution to art history called The Nude. A disgruntled friend of mine opined that if the author had any integrity, he’d have started off his opus: ‘Wankers, ahoy!’ (Oh, the jaunty irreverence of those days of intellectual ferment, and ... ”