This comprehensive tome traces the artists, sculptors, and photographers whöat times fascinated or repelled by prostitution in all its forms¿captured the realities and fantasies of this ambiguous world.
Guy Cogeval, art historian and president of the Musée d'Orsay, is an expert on nineteenth-century art.
Nienke Bakker is the curator of the Van Gogh paintings at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Marie Robert and
Isolde Pludermacher are curators at the Musée d'Orsay.
Richard Thomson is Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh."