Naked authority : the body in western painting, 1830-1908 /
Pointon, Marcia R.,
Naked authority : the body in western painting, 1830-1908 / Marcia Pointon. - xi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Cambridge new art history and criticism . - Cambridge new art history and criticism. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Reading the body: historiography and the case of the nude -- Psychoanalysis and art history: Freud, Fried and Eakins -- Liberty on the Barracades: woman, politics and sexuality in Delacroix -- Biography and the body in late Renoir -- Interior portraits -- Guess who's coming to lunch? allegory and the body in Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe -- Bibliography -- Index.
"The human body, and in recent times particularly the female body, is central to western painting. Images such as Delacroix's Liberty on the Barricades and Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe are so well known that the question of how the gendered body functions in them is often overlooked. In this detailed feminist art-historical study of the body in general and the nude in particular, Marcia Pointon explores the narrative structures of a series of major European and American paintings and other images, mapping her interpretations on the historiography of nineteenth-century painting and employing an innovative theoretical methodology to demonstrate how the visual representation of gendered bodies works to articulate power relations that are to be understood in terms of the symbolic and the psychic as part of the historical."--Publisher description.
0521385288 9780521385282 0521409993 9780521409995
90001860
Human figure in art
Nude in art
Women in art
Painting, Modern--19th century
Painting, Modern--20th century
ND1290 / .P6 1990
757.09034
Naked authority : the body in western painting, 1830-1908 / Marcia Pointon. - xi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Cambridge new art history and criticism . - Cambridge new art history and criticism. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Reading the body: historiography and the case of the nude -- Psychoanalysis and art history: Freud, Fried and Eakins -- Liberty on the Barracades: woman, politics and sexuality in Delacroix -- Biography and the body in late Renoir -- Interior portraits -- Guess who's coming to lunch? allegory and the body in Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe -- Bibliography -- Index.
"The human body, and in recent times particularly the female body, is central to western painting. Images such as Delacroix's Liberty on the Barricades and Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe are so well known that the question of how the gendered body functions in them is often overlooked. In this detailed feminist art-historical study of the body in general and the nude in particular, Marcia Pointon explores the narrative structures of a series of major European and American paintings and other images, mapping her interpretations on the historiography of nineteenth-century painting and employing an innovative theoretical methodology to demonstrate how the visual representation of gendered bodies works to articulate power relations that are to be understood in terms of the symbolic and the psychic as part of the historical."--Publisher description.
0521385288 9780521385282 0521409993 9780521409995
90001860
Human figure in art
Nude in art
Women in art
Painting, Modern--19th century
Painting, Modern--20th century
ND1290 / .P6 1990
757.09034