The Perfectible Body
Allen & Unwin, $29.95 pb
History
Flexing Some Intellectual Muscle
by Simon Clews •
Kenneth Clark once observed that, by criticising the physical appearance of a human figure, we are, by implication, admitting the existence of perfection in the human body. Kenneth Dutton’s The Perfectible Body presents us with a study of our obsession with that perfect body from the gymnastics of Ancient Greece through to the present.
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The Perfectible Body
by Kenneth R. Dutton
Allen & Unwin, $29.95 pb
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