The fallen veil : a literary and cultural history of the photographic nude in nineteenth-century france / Raisa Adah Rexer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rexer, Raisa, author.

Series:

Material texts.

Material texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects--France--History--19th century.

Photography.

Literature and photography--France--History--19th century.

Literature and photography.

Nude in art--History--19th century.

Nude in art.

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Photography of the nude--History--19th century.

Photography of the nude.

France.

Genre:

Livres numeriques.

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the historical development of photographic nude images and their central role in nineteenth-century French culture. The nude photograph generated its own discourse, its own anxieties about society, obscenity, and art. No account of attitudes toward sexuality, the rights of women, the history of censorship, or the history of art in the nineteenth century can be complete without accounting for these photographs. This book necessarily involves the visual analysis of the photographs themselves and their unique patterns of representation. Its focus, however, will not be on the images as much as the narrative about nude photography that emerges out of its inscription-whether through allusion or ekphrasis-into a wide range of nineteenth-century texts, including newspapers, magazines, government records, and fiction and nonfiction books. As it turns out, nude photographs exerted a particularly marked influence on contemporary literary production. In the works of the authors in this study, the photographic nude stands at the nexus of concerns about changing modes of artistic representation, about the limits of art and obscenity and the government's role in setting those limits, and about modern industrial capitalism's effect on both art production on the one hand and sexual mores on the other. Although they worked in text rather than image, these authors felt the shock of this novel way of representing the body. The nude photograph provides a new set of terms by which to reconsider some of the century's most well-known literary figures, including Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, and the Goncourt brothers"-- Fourni par l'éditeur.

Contents:

Part I. The Second Empire

Chapter 1 . Art, obscenity, and censorship : 1839-1870

Chapter 2 . The judgment of Phryne, or, the model's meaning

Chapter 3 . Baudelaire's bodies

Chapter 4 . Manette Salomon and anti- modernity

Part II. The Third Republic

Chapter 5 . The rise of an international industry : 1870-1900

Chapter 6 . The dangerous streets

Chapter 7 . Nana in the nude

Chapter 8 . Maizeroy and the feminist photo-novel

Conclusion.

Notes:

Comprend des références bibliographiques et un index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812297850

0812297857

OCLC:

1237399246