Bodies of modernity : figure and flesh in fin-de-siècle France /
Garb, Tamar,
Bodies of modernity : figure and flesh in fin-de-siècle France / Tamar Garb. - 240 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. - Interplay, arts + history + theory. . - Interplay (London, England : Thames and Hudson). .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Gustave Caillebotte's Male Figures: Masculinity, Muscularity and Modernity -- Modelling the Male Body: Physical Culture, Photography and the Classical Ideal -- James Tissot's 'Parisienne' and the Making of the Modern Woman -- Powder and Paint: Framing the Feminine in Georges Seurat's Young Woman Powdering Herself -- Painterly Plenitude: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Fantasy of the Feminine -- Paul Cezanne's The Eternal Feminine and the Erotics of Vision -- Cezanne's Late Bathers: Modernism and Sexual Difference -- Notes and Sources -- List of Illustrations -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7.
0500280495 9780500280492 0500018421 9780500018422
Human figure in art--History--19th century.
Sex role in art--History--19th century.
Art, French
Art, French--19th century
Art and society--History--France--19th century.
N7625.5. / G372 1998
704.942
Bodies of modernity : figure and flesh in fin-de-siècle France / Tamar Garb. - 240 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. - Interplay, arts + history + theory. . - Interplay (London, England : Thames and Hudson). .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Gustave Caillebotte's Male Figures: Masculinity, Muscularity and Modernity -- Modelling the Male Body: Physical Culture, Photography and the Classical Ideal -- James Tissot's 'Parisienne' and the Making of the Modern Woman -- Powder and Paint: Framing the Feminine in Georges Seurat's Young Woman Powdering Herself -- Painterly Plenitude: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Fantasy of the Feminine -- Paul Cezanne's The Eternal Feminine and the Erotics of Vision -- Cezanne's Late Bathers: Modernism and Sexual Difference -- Notes and Sources -- List of Illustrations -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7.
0500280495 9780500280492 0500018421 9780500018422
Human figure in art--History--19th century.
Sex role in art--History--19th century.
Art, French
Art, French--19th century
Art and society--History--France--19th century.
N7625.5. / G372 1998
704.942