Absalom, Absalom! And All the King's Men represent a less traditional, more subversive version of history, and how they are also clearly male representations of history

From Duchamp's analogies between humans and machines, to the traumatized bodies of dadaism and surrealism, to the gendered politics of horizontal sculptures, the body figures have had a prominent position in the art of the teens and postwar decades. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the context, cultural meanings and aesthetics of the modernist body, now gendered male, female or androgynous. In order to do that, we will concentrate our attention on two statues made by Giacometti and Epstein respectively, called "Woman with her throat cut" and "Woman possessed."

The choice is motivated for the important changes in aesthetics and the philosophical thought they reflect. The choice of a female gender is not a casual one and in the following paragraphs...
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