Bibliographie complète
The female nude: art, obscenity, and sexuality
Type de ressource
Auteur/contributeur
- Nead, Lynda (Auteur)
Titre
The female nude: art, obscenity, and sexuality
Résumé
The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead's The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this phenomenon from a feminist perspective and ask: how and why did the female nude acquire this status?
In a deft and engaging manner, Lynda Nead explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced, issues which have been reignited by current controversies around the patriarchy, objectification and pornography. Nead brilliantly illustrates the two opposing poles occupied by the female nude in the history of art; at one extreme the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the other, spilling over into the degraded and the obscene. What both have in common, however, is the aim of containing the female body.
Drawing on examples of art and artists from the classical period to the 1980s, The Female Nude paints a devastating picture of the depiction of the female body and remains as fresh and invigorating today as it was at the time of its first publication.
Lieu
London, Angleterre
Maison d’édition
Routledge
Date
1992
Nb de pages
xi, 133
Langue
Anglais
ISBN
978-0-415-02678-9
Titre abrégé
The female nude
Consulté le
09/10/2023 01:17
Catalogue de bibl.
WorldCat Discovery Service
Référence
Nead, Lynda. (1992). The female nude: art, obscenity, and sexuality. Routledge. https://uqam-bib.on.worldcat.org/oclc/300650933
Approches et analyses
Cours
Discipline
Périodes historiques
Thématiques
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