Femmes assises. Photographie While it denotes a clear

While it denotes a clear concern about the future of historical achievements

As Yourcenar asserted in 1954 in Electra's Notebook

philosophers and poets

during the Renaissance

we have just traveled halfway around the world

Femmes assises. Photographie While it denotes a clearThe book tackles a subject neglected by art history, that of seated women, by proposing three readings. One, offering from page to page a gallery of paintings of varying notoriety; the second, of a sociological nature, examines the implications of this posture and the causes of its recurrence; the last, finally, of a more creative nature, affixing short texts to the works.