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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 133 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203135474
  • 9780203135471
  • 9780415026772
  • 0415026776
  • 9780415026789
  • 0415026784
  • 9781134972715
  • 1134972717
  • 9781134972753
  • 113497275X
  • 9781134972760
  • 1134972768
  • 9786610328550
  • 6610328552
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Female nude.DDC classification:
  • 704.9/424 20
LOC classification:
  • N7573 .N4 1992eb
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-130) and index.

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.

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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