Naked authority : the body in western painting, 1830-1908 / Marcia Pointon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pointon, Marcia R., author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press, publisher.

Series:

Cambridge new art history and criticism.

Cambridge new art history and criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human figure in art.

Nude in art.

Painting, Modern--19th century.

Painting, Modern.

Painting, Modern--20th century.

Women in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 160 pages) : 48 illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Summary:

"The human body, particularly the female body in the nineteenth century, is central to Western painting.... In this 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"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Reading the body : historiography and the case of the nude

Psychoanalysis and art history : Freud, Fried and Eakins

Liberty on the Barracades : woman, politics and sexuality in Delacroix

Biography and the body in late Renoir

Interior portraits

Guess who's coming to lunch? Allegory and the body in Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on October 25, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.

ISBN:

9780300272024

0300272022

OCLC:

1348701156