New Faces on the Block
Jenny Diski, 27 November 1997
Venus Envy
by Elizabeth Haiken.
Johns Hopkins, 288 pp., £20.50, January 1998,0 8018 5763 5 Show More
by Elizabeth Haiken.
Johns Hopkins, 288 pp., £20.50, January 1998,
The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty From Ancient Egypt
by Dorothea Arnold.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 192 pp., $45, February 1997,0 8109 6504 6 Show More
by Dorothea Arnold.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 192 pp., $45, February 1997,
“... presumably, have been no ‘after’ picture. Worryingly, in her history of cosmetic surgery, Elizabeth Haiken ends the paragraph on Rosa Travers with a parenthesis: ‘what happened afterwards was not reported.’ At the very least, it suggests that Rosa’s misfortune did not make a fortune for her after all. Or shall we cheer ourselves up by ... ”
