Fascination with the human female's relationship with apes  

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There is a fascination of the human female's relationship with apes.

fin de siècle

A number of fin de siècle artworks betray a fascination with human female/non-human primate contact.

While precursors include the apelike ogre in Fuseli's The Nightmare (1781), the first works in this category are Emmanuel Frémiet's sculptures Gorilla Carrying off a Woman (1887) and An Orang Outan Strangling a Young Borneo Savage (1895).

Then, in 1902, there is Hostile Forces, a detail of the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt.

Alfred Kubin produced at least three works in this category: Lubricity (1902), One Woman For All[1] (1900-01) and The Ape (1903-1906).

Later appearances in literature and film

• His Monkey Wife (1930), a story by John Collier
• Frances Gifford with ape in 'Nyoka, The Jungle Girl'
• King Kong (1933), a film
• The Woman and The Ape (1996), a novel by Peter Høeg
• Max, Mon Amour (1986), a film by Nagisa Oshima

See also

• 19th century preoccupation with human animal contact
• King Kong
• L'Amour (photograph) by William Mortensen
• Apes in literature
• Eros in the 19th century
• Eros in the 20th century
• Fin de siècle
• Why Women Love Apes by Stine Jensen
• The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art (2017) by Roni Grén