Introduction -- The artist as muse. Juan de Pareja: a face of freedom ; Dora Maar: the weeping woman ; Emilie Flöge: dressing Klimpt's kiss ; Peter Schlesinger: sink or swim -- The self as muse. Artemisia Gentileschi: survivor, painter, slayer ; Frida Kahlo: heroine of pain ; Sunil Gupta: playing dead ; Nilupa Yasmin: weaving a way in -- Family albums. Helena Dumas: childhood uncensored ; Beyoncé: the fertility goddess ; Fukases Sukezo: father figure -- For the love of the muse. Ada Katz: American beauty ; George Dyer: Bacon and the burglar ; Lawrence Alloway: the critic stripped bare ; Gala Dalí: queen of the castle -- Performing muse. Moro: homemade sushi ; Ulay: breathing in Marina Abramović ; Grace Jones: graffiti goddess ; Tilda Swinton: surrealist shapeshifter ; Lila Nunes: guardian angel -- Muse of a movement. Elizabeth Siddall: Ophelia awakens ; Sunday Reed: in the paradise garden ; Lady Ottoline Morrell: Bloomsbury bohemian ; Marchesa Luisa Casati: Medusa's stare -- Muse as message. Anna Christina Olson: Christina's world ; Doreen Lawrence: "no woman, no cry" ; Sue Tilley: supervisor sleeping ; Ollie Henderson: start the riot ; Suoleo: icon of Harlem -- Epilogue: The muse manifesto.