Berlin Coquette — Smith Baby and a paw print on

and a paw print on the back

this book traces the artist’s experiments with different media and highlights innovative techniques that established his reputation as early modernist

Binding: Hardback

- From the back cover

Berlin Coquette — Smith Baby and a paw print onBy Jill Suzanne Smith Associate Professor of German During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the Whore of Babylon. Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichs about prostitutes and actually explored