The Nude
The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity
1st Edition
Published on 4. May 2018
336 pages
978-0-429-96465-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author Richard Leppert relates the visual history of how the naked body intersects with the foundational characteristics of what it is to be human, measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness, delight, and desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the context of changing social and cultural realities. The bodies comprising the Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented, ecstatic or bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume amply demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose surface is written a summation of Western history: its glory but also its degradation.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-429-96465-7 (9780429964657)
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06/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
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01/2007
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
€87.20
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Person
Richard Leppert
Content
Introduction: The State of Being without Clothes-in Art , Representing the Young Innocence, Nakedness, and the Adult Imaginary , The Female Nude: Surfaces of Desire , The Male Nude Identity and Denial , Afterword
