Imaginary Women

Does it make sense today to speak of the presence of inspirational muses when the identity and the role of women have been so radically transformed over time as to even include the presence of figures as “self muses”? Does the technical revolution have some responsibility in the modification of the rituals and habits of the muse-modelartists relationship that the centuries-old history of the arts has bequeathed us?
What this will involve is a study by many hands or rather a work comprising many viewpoints, the purpose of which is to explore the motivations and reasons that induced the minds of artists a conceive a like ‘invention’
become indispensable to the creative process.