Reviews

"The Venus de Milo is probably the most famous sculpture in the world-controversial from the first and much written about. In "Disarmed Gregory Curtis has tripped with delicate balance though the thick mine fields of scholarship and produced and engaging and engrossing book. It makes one want to head right off to Paris, to that long gallery in the Louvre, and have a look again."
-Larry McMurtry
"In plunging us into the mysteries behind the glowing achievement that is the Venus de Milo, Gregory Curtis has created quite an achievement himself-a memorable, fascinating, thrilling book. In vivid prose based on research of great integrity, he makes us see new depths beneath the statue's beauty. He has created a work that will endure in your memory like the statue itself."
-Robert A. Caro
"Fascinating, scholarly, surprising and extremely entertaining."
-Jan Morris
""Disarmed will be a startling book for readers expecting a dutiful art history lesson about a statue. It is instead a fiery and eccentric story, in whose pages all sorts of unforgettable characters fight for possession not just of the Venus de Milo herself, but of the tranquil, eternal, maddeningly elusive ideal of human perfection she represents."
-Stephen Harrigan, author of "The Gates of the Alamo
"A fascinating tale admirably told."
-Rosamond Bernier