Susan Sontag Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004
Birthday: January 16
Death: December 28
Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.
source: Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage
topic: Perfection, Looks, Magazines, Sculptors, Pinup
