From the fifth century BCE, Greek sculptors' mastery of anatomy resulted in greater naturalness and more different poses. An essential innovation was contrapposto—the asymmetrical posture of the figure standing with just one leg bearing the body's excess weight and also the other comfortable. An early example of this is Polykleitos' sculpture Dor
With regard to the distinction in between art and pornography, Kenneth Clark pointed out that sexuality was part of the attraction towards the nude like a issue of artwork, stating "no nude, nevertheless abstract, must fail to arouse during the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even though it be only the faintest shadow—and if it does not
In true ‘90s underground trend, Dunye enlisted the photographer Zoe Leonard to make an archive with the fictional actress and blues singer. The Fae Richards Photo Archive consists of eighty two images, and was shown as part of Leonard’s career retrospective with the Whitney Museum of recent Art in 2018. This spirit of collaboration, and the rad