The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870-1910

ISBN-13: 9780521807555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 244 str.

Heather Dawkins

Opis

This study examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the fine art nude, print culture, and censorship, Heather Dawkins explores how artists, art critics, politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges evaluated the nude. She reveals how spectatorship of the nude was refracted through the ideals of art, femininity, republican liberty, and public decency. Dawkins also investigates how women reshaped private perception of the nude to accommodate their own experience and subjectivity.

Recenzje

'An erudite, insightful account … a fascinating, revealing examination of an exciting time in art.' Antiques Magazine

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Decency in dispute: viewing the nude; 2. Modelling another view: posing for the nude; 3. Improper appreciation: women and the fine art of the nude; 4. A defiant imagination: Marie de Montifaud, censorship, and the nude; Epilogue.