Les Femmes Fatales

German aquamanile depicting Airstotle’s girlfriend Phyllis riding him around the garden after Aristotle warned Alexander the Great about women. Copper alloy, 1400 AD.

 Umberto Boccioni, Idolo Moderno, 1906

 A short story about facial conception

 Henry Fuseli, Two Courtesans with Fantastic Hairstyles and Hats, 1796

The only man that ever I knew
Who did not make me almost spew
Was Fuseli: he was both Turk and Jew -
And so, dear Christian Friends, how do you do?

(William Blake's tribute to Fuseli)

 Mob of Terror

 Max Liebermann, Samson and Delilah, 1901

 Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse

I don't wanna see no doc
I need attendance from my nurse around the clock
'Cause there's no prescription for me
She's the one, the only remedy

 René Magritte, Le Galet (The Pebble), 1948

Raoul Ubac, Tête du Mannequin d'André Masson, 1938

 Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), Orphée

 Pierre Winther

 Otto Dix,  Reclining Woman on Leopard Skin, 1927

 Discrimination

 Colette Calascione, Persephone, 2000

 Josephine Meckseper

"When a powder tower explodes don't overestimate the significance of the matches." - Ernst Jünger

 Ángel Zárraga, La mujer y el pelele, 1909

 Walter Popp, Men, "Last Man Standing Gets Annabelle Austin" (1959)

 Lucas Cranach the Elder, Salome, 1530

 Atelier Manassé, 1920s

 Paula Rego, Snow White and her Step Mother

 Bait

 Max Klinger, Sirene (Triton und Nereide), 1895

 The Tiger Lillies - Start a Fire
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 Johannes Grützke, The Murder of Marat, 1989

 Paul Conroy

"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity." (Jean Baudrillard)

 Franz von Bayros, The white peacock, c. 1900

 Madame Yevonde, Lady Milbanke as Penthelisea, Queen of the Amazons, 1935

 Jean Béraud, L'escrimeuse (The Swordswoman), c. 1890

 Gilles Berquet

 Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Kiss

 Terry Richardson

 Richard Müller, Teasing, 1912

 Johanna Rzepka, Dum Dum Lipstick, 2005

 Adolphe Mossa, Elle, 1906

 Walter Schnackenberg, 1920s

 Dawn Mellor

 Jean-Jacques Lequeu, La Volupté, 1791

 Giulio Aristide Sartorio, La Sirena, 1893

Legs, Legs, Legs

Erwin Blumenfeld, 1940s

 Leonor Fini, Les Initiales, 1936

 Jean Moral, Female Nude in Lingerie and Boots, 1930s

 Bad Snow White

 
James Gillray, Fashionable Contrasts, or The Duchess's little Shoe yielding to the Magnitude of the Duke's Foot, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1792 (Frederick, Duke of York (1763-1827) with Frederica, Princess of Prussia (1767-1820)

 Nina Leen, Tulsa, OK, 1947

 Dali, Cannibalism of the Objects, 1937
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman - Karl Kraus 

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 Dubossarsky & Vinogradov, The Start of the Heating Season, 2006

 Nina Leen, 1951
"Lieber ein häßlicher Fuß verziehen, als ein häßlicher Strumpf!" - Karl Kraus

Colette Calascione, Tickle, 2000 

"In a word, my dear, I am an amphibious creature: I love everything, everyone, whatever it is, it amuses me; I should like to combine every species . . ." (Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom, 1795)

 John A.S. Coutts, Holly Faram, 1930s

 Rene Magritte, The Red Model, 1937

"The problem of the shoes demonstrates how easily the most frightful things can be made to appear completely harmless through the power of thoughtlessness. Thanks to the 'modele rouge' (Red Model), one senses that the union of the human foot and a shoe is in fact based upon a monstrous custom." - René Magritte

 Atelier Manassé, Dangerous Passion, 1930s

 
 Franois Boucher, The Toilette, 1742

"Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite. This comfortable view of what is required for a philosopher has recently received corroboration through the theory of immediate or intuitive knowledge." (Hegel, Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Introduction §5)

 Shalva Kikodze, Artists' coffee-house in Paris, 1920

Ma belle, brise donc ce silence !
Regarde moi, je suis à tes pieds !
Jamais ta colère n'a été telle ! "
Comme l'époux parlait ains,
détournant ses yeux clos,
Elle laissa tomber des larmes abondantes,
Mais pas un mot.

Amaru, La Centurie. Poèmes amoureux, XXXIV.

 Gerda Wegener (1889-1940)

 Anom., A Woman hiding Cocain, Berlin, 1925

 Wilhelm Freddie, My Two Sisters, 1938

 Bill Brandt, Belgravia, 1951

 Martin Eder, The Performance, 2000s

  Paul-Émile Bécat (1885-1960)

 Dmitry Bulnigin, Tennis, 2007

 Juarez Machado, Arrivée, 1997

 Peter Stackpole, 1937

Professor Connie Fonzlau of the Gilbert School for Undressing demonstrating "How a Wife Should Not Undress"

 Karel Teige: "Collage Nr. 293", 1944

 Chas Krider, Dita: Night Stand, 1998

 Pierre Klossowski, L'Enlevement de Roberte

 Leo Fontan (1884-1965)

 Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina (Detail), 1622

 Georges Hugnet, La Vie amoureuse des Spumiferes, 1948

 Weimar Babe