Female Nude Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

Name: Female Nude Art, Obscenity and Sexuality
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ISBN: 9780415026789

ISBN-10: 0415026784

ISBN-13: 9780415026789

Edition: 1992

Authors: Lynda Nead

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Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes `art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of Western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status? The Female Nudebrings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art, and by exploring the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced and maintained, renews recent debates on high culture and pornography.…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/3/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.33" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Plates


Introduction



Theorizing the Female Nude



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



Redrawing the Lines



'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



Cultural Distinctions



Sacred Frontiers



Pure and Motivated Pleasure



Policing the Boundaries



Displaying the Female Body



Erotic Art: A Frame for Desire List of Works Cited


Index