![]() ![]() Picasso, de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Karl Ove Knausgaard all come under Hustvedt’s intense scrutiny. “A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women” (which provided the title of this book) examines particular artworks but also human perception itself, including the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world. ![]() Armed with passionate curiosity, a sense of humor, and insights from many disciplines, she repeatedly upends received ideas and cultural truisms. In a trilogy of works brought together in a single volume, Siri Hustvedt demonstrates the striking range and depth of her knowledge in both the humanities and sciences. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the MindĪ brilliant collection of essays from the prizewinning novelist, feminist, and scholar Siri Hustvedt, internationally acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved. ![]()
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