Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830-1908 (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830-1908 (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) Book

In this detailed feminist art-historical study of the body in general and the nude in particular, Marcia Pointon explores the narrative structures of a series of major European and American paintings and other images. Pointon employs an innovative methodology as well as mapping her interpretations on the historiography of nineteenth-century painting.Read More

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    The human body, and in recent times particularly the female body, is central to western painting. Images such as Delacroix's Liberty on the Barricades and Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe are so well known that the question of how the gendered body functions in them is often overlooked. In this detailed feminist art-historical study of the body in general and the nude in particular, Marcia Pointon explores the narrative structures of a series of major European and American paintings and other images, mapping her interpretations on the historiography of nineteenth-century painting and employing an innovative theoretical methodology to demonstrate how the visual representation of gendered bodies works to articulate power relations that are to be understood in terms of the symbolic and the psychic as part of the historical.

  • 0521409993
  • 9780521409995
  • Marcia Pointon
  • 26 October 1990
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 172
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