But her most celebrated essay is only one
of her many contributions to art history: her books include Realism (1971), Woman as Sex
Object: Studies in Erotic Art, 1730 — 1970 (1972); Women, Art, and Power, and Other Essays (1988), The Politics
of Vision (1989), The Body in Pieces: The
Fragment as a Metaphor
of Modernity (1994), and Bathers, Bodies,
Beauty (2006); Misère, her book about the representation
of misery in the second half
of the 19th century in France and England is due out next year.