The female nude : art, obscenity, and sexuality / Lynda Nead
- Author
- Nead, Lynda
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 133 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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- Contents
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Introduction; FRAMING THE FEMALE BODY; A DISCOURSE ON THE NAKED AND THE NUDE; A STUDY OF IDEAL ART; AESTHETICS AND THE FEMALE NUDE; OBSCENITY AND THE SUBLIME; 'THE DAMAGED VENUS'; THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADITION; THE LESSONS OF THE LIFE CLASS; ART CRITICISM AND SEXUAL METAPHOR; BREAKING OPEN THE BOUNDARIES; REDRAWING THE LINES; SACRED FRONTIERS; PURE AND MOTIVATED PLEASURE; POLICING THE BOUNDARIES; DISPLAYING THE FEMALE BODY; EROTIC ART: A FRAME FOR DESIRE; Notes; Works cited; Index.
- Summary
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 0203135474 (electronic bk.)
9780203135471 (electronic bk.)
9780415026772
0415026776
9780415026789 (pbk.)
0415026784 (pbk.)
9781134972715 (e-book ; Mobi)
1134972717
9781134972753 (e-book ; ePub)
113497275X
9781134972760 (e-book ; PDF)
1134972768
9786610328550
6610328552
0415026784
9781138130449 (hardback) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-130) and index.
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