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The female nude : art, obscenity, and sexuality / Lynda Nead.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992Description: xi, 133 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415026776
  • 9780415026772
  • 0415026784
  • 9780415026789
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.9421 23
LOC classification:
  • N7573 .N4 1992
Contents:
List of plates -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Theorizing the Female Nude -- 1. Framing the Female Body -- 2. A Discourse on the Naked and the Nude -- 3. A Study of Ideal Art -- 4. Aesthetics and the Female Nude -- 5. Obscenity and the Sublime -- Pt. II. Redrawing the Lines -- 1. 'The Damaged Venus' -- 2. The Framework of Tradition -- 3. The Lessons of the Life Class -- 4. Art Criticism and Sexual Metaphor -- 5. Breaking Open the Boundaries -- 6. Redrawing the Lines -- Pt. III. Cultural Distinctions -- 1. Sacred Frontiers -- 2. Pure and Motivated Pleasure -- 3. Policing the Boundaries -- 4. Displaying the Female Body -- 5. Erotic Art: A Frame for Desire -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
Summary: Anyone who examines the history of western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes 'art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status? In recent years, the female nude has received renewed attention from feminist artists and art historians. By examining the dissemination of the high art female nude through art education and the life class, through art publications and the language of art criticism itself, The Female Nude brings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art. The book also explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced and maintained, and by surveying the legal and social regulation of the obscene renews recent debates on high culture and pornography. The Female Nude represents the first feminist survey of the most significant subject in western art. It reveals how the female nude is now both at the centre and at the margins of high culture. At the centre, and within art historical discourse, the female nude is seen as the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the edge, it risks losing its respectability and spilling over into the obscene.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-130) and index.

List of plates -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Theorizing the Female Nude -- 1. Framing the Female Body -- 2. A Discourse on the Naked and the Nude -- 3. A Study of Ideal Art -- 4. Aesthetics and the Female Nude -- 5. Obscenity and the Sublime -- Pt. II. Redrawing the Lines -- 1. 'The Damaged Venus' -- 2. The Framework of Tradition -- 3. The Lessons of the Life Class -- 4. Art Criticism and Sexual Metaphor -- 5. Breaking Open the Boundaries -- 6. Redrawing the Lines -- Pt. III. Cultural Distinctions -- 1. Sacred Frontiers -- 2. Pure and Motivated Pleasure -- 3. Policing the Boundaries -- 4. Displaying the Female Body -- 5. Erotic Art: A Frame for Desire -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Anyone who examines the history of western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes 'art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status? In recent years, the female nude has received renewed attention from feminist artists and art historians. By examining the dissemination of the high art female nude through art education and the life class, through art publications and the language of art criticism itself, The Female Nude brings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art. The book also explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced and maintained, and by surveying the legal and social regulation of the obscene renews recent debates on high culture and pornography. The Female Nude represents the first feminist survey of the most significant subject in western art. It reveals how the female nude is now both at the centre and at the margins of high culture. At the centre, and within art historical discourse, the female nude is seen as the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the edge, it risks losing its respectability and spilling over into the obscene.

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