12.20.2004:Professor Claudia Moscovici on Nude Photography

from her article on domai.com                 :

Noted feminist scholar Claudia Moscovici is a professor the University of Michigan, and who has published several books on feminist theory and women's sensuality, including Erotisms and From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects.

On Sensuality and Simple Nudes
By Claudia Moscovici

"Don't you see that, for my work on modeling, I have not only to possess a complete knowledge of the human form, but also a deep feeling for every aspect of it? I have, as it were, to incorporate the lines of the human body, and they must become part of myself, deeply seated in my instincts. I must feel them at the end of my fingers ...My object is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see."
- Auguste Rodin (from Anthony Ludovici , Personal Reminiscences of Auguste Rodin, 1926)