The Female Nude : Art, Obscenity and Sexuality Hardback
by Lynda (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Nead
Part of the Routledge Classics series
Hardback
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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. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:212 pages, 40 Halftones, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2024
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- ISBN:9781032641782
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:212 pages, 40 Halftones, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032641782
