The Nude : The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
081334350X
ISBN-13
9780813343501
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Westview Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 2nd, 2007
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
522 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.40 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Nudes depicted in artCultural studies
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The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race.
The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author Richard Leppert relates the visual history of how the naked body intersects with the foundational characteristics of what it is to be human, measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness, delight, and desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the context of changing social and cultural realities. The bodies comprising the Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented, ecstatic or bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume amply demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose surface is written a summation of Western history: its glory but also its degradation.
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