Shades of change : suntanning and the twentieth-century American dream / by Devon Hansen.

Physical culture and the body beautiful : purposive exercise in the lives of American women, 1800-1870 / Jan Todd.

ix, 214 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Bodyscape : art, modernity, and the ideal figure / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm

Die Herkunft des Schönen : Grundzüge der evolutionären Ästhetik / Klaus Richter.

xvii, 149 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm

Beauty : a Black perspective / Nakedi Ribane.

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Shades of change : suntanning and the twentieth-century American dream / by Devon Hansen.

Physical culture and the body beautiful : purposive exercise in the lives of American women, 1800-1870 / Jan Todd.

Bodyscape : art, modernity, and the ideal figure / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Die Herkunft des Schönen : Grundzüge der evolutionären Ästhetik / Klaus Richter.

Beauty : a Black perspective / Nakedi Ribane.