If you have a Cold War
history essay due, you should be ready to spend many hours researching, writing, re-writing, editing, and proofreading.
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.