In light of Plush, Marilyn Minter’s new book of pubic hair photography, Vulture looks back on the history of the female bush in Western art. Like the women who owned them, pubes through the ages were nearly invisible:
Of course other artists had painted female pubic mounds aplenty, but these works were strictly pornographic. Indeed, what was most shocking about the Goya, the Courbet, and the Modigliani was their eliding high and low art. A chick’s pubic hair will do that to an otherwise respectable painting.