Preview: David L. Chapman – Universal Hunks: A Pictorial History of Muscular Men around the World, 1895-1975
From the art of Ancient Egypt to Classical Antiquity, right through to our modern era, despite how much cultural norms seem to have shifted, the chiselled male figure still stands as the paradigm of physical health and fitness – an emblem of militaristic and political might. The male figure persists as such an object of envy, […] 