Lynda Nead

The Female Nude (eBook, PDF)

Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 as it was since its first publication. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040025048
• Artikelnr.: 70097128

Autorenporträt

Lynda Nead joined the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck in 1986 and was appointed to the Pevsner Chair of History of Art in 2004. Before coming to Birkbeck, she taught History of Art at the University of Leicester and the University of Kent. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London and Moore Distinguished Professor, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology. She was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2013 (MAE); a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2017 (FRHistS); and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018 (FBA).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition List of Images Introduction Part
1: 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 Part 2: Redrawing the Lines 6. 'The
Damaged Venus' 7. The Framework of Tradition 8. The Lessons of the Life
Class 9. Art Criticism and Sexual Metaphor 10. Breaking Open the Boundaries
11. Redrawing the Lines Part 3: Cultural Distinctions 12. Sacred Frontiers
13. Pure and Motivated Pleasure 14. Policing the Boundaries 15. Displaying
the Female Body 16. Erotic Art: A Frame for Desire. Bibliography Index