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Ingres's eroticized bodies : retracing the serpentine line / Carol Ockman.
Fine Arts Library ND553.I5 O35 1995
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LIBRA ND553.I5 O35 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ockman, Carol.
- Series:
- Yale publications in the history of art
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique.
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867.
- Nude in art.
- Feminist art criticism.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 178 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- This provocative book - the first full-length feminist and sociohistorical study of Ingres's art - explores the meanings behind the fluid, distorted, and sensualized bodies that populate these works. Carol Ockman traces the shift in late eighteenth-century French art from the neoclassical representation of the heroic male to the sensualized, homoerotic male nude to the nineteenth-century emphasis on the female nude. She then explores the problems posed by the increasing identification of the sensual with the female body, demonstrating that both neoclassicism and modernism sanction an ideal that conjoins the sensual and feminine with the deformed and bestial.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300059612
- OCLC:
- 31010806
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