{"product_id":"bathers-bodies-beauty-linda-nochlin-9780674021167","title":"Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA leading feminist art historian on the nude body, from impressionism to postmodernism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo some viewers, Renoir's \u003ci\u003eGreat Bathers\u003c\/i\u003e is the very picture of female sensuality and beauty. To others, the sentimentalized, sexualized prettiness of the image embodies a whole tradition of masculine mastery and feminine display. Still others find in the bathers a feminine fantasy of bodily liberation. Juxtaposing these opposing points of view, Linda Nochlin deftly uncovers the dissonances surrounding artistic representation of the female form from the nineteenth century to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNochlin begins by focusing on the painterly preoccupation with bathing, whether at the beach, in lakes and rivers, in public swimming pools, or in bathtubs. Why, she asks, did the nude figure, posed in or near water, become such a dominant trope in the history of Western art? Covering artists from Manet, Cezanne, Bonnard, and Picasso to late-twentieth-century and contemporary figures such as Philip Pearlstein, Anselm Kiefer, Alice Neel, and Jenny Saville, Nochlin develops a rich interpretative collage of the layered meanings ascribed to bodies in intimate settings. She concludes with a powerful essay on aging, infirmity, and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA deeply personal book--Nochlin herself is depicted in more than one of the paintings she discusses, and her discussion of old age is inspired by her own looming mortality--\u003ci\u003eBathers, Bodies, Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e draws on a lifetime of loving, hating, and wrestling with art to reveal both the visceral disappointments and supreme joys of seeing it from a feminist perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda Nochlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674021169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674021167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 6.84w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2008 pg. 26","brand":"Linda Nochlin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47637144862975,"sku":"9780674021167","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_31f7428a-64bf-48cd-bc3b-38969f4ba812.jpg?v=1765114208","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bathers-bodies-beauty-linda-nochlin-9780674021167","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}