‘A wild cocktail of emotion, politics and desire’: the history of breasts in art

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‘A wild cocktail of emotion, politics and desire’: the history of breasts in art

From lactating Madonnas to disembodied orbs, a new exhibition surveys the depictions of breasts and asks – what about the women who own them?Breasts have been a focus in the culture wars of the last 50-odd years. Second-wave feminists casting off their bras in the 1970s come to mind, and then ongoing judgment-filled debates around breastfeeding, and the even more fraught, and recent, hostilities around trans healthcare. Recent celebrations of fe…