The figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filmmakers Agn?s Varda and Catherine Breillat, and American photographer working in Paris, Nan Goldin, return to the paintings of Titian, Vel?zquez, Goya, Courbet, and others, re-imagining, and re-purposing, their images of female beauty, display, (auto)eroticism,...