{"product_id":"painting-her-pleasure-lauren-jimerson-9781526159830","title":"Painting Her Pleasure: Three Women Artists and the Nude in Avant-Garde Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines nudes by three women: Suzanne Valadon, ﾉmilie Charmy and Marie Vassilieff. Working in avant-garde Paris, these artists pioneered modern body imagery, expressing female subjectivity and sexuality in paint. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eValadon, Charmy and Vassilieff experimented with the male nude, Black female nude, pregnant nude and nude self-portrait, a genre which few artists tackled until half a century later. Flouting the period's scientific discourses and social mores, they breached assumptions about 'feminine' art and unhinged expectations about the type of subject a woman could paint. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContextualising their work within and against modernism, drawing parallels with later feminist artists and philosophers, this interdisciplinary book unravels the complexities of early twentieth-century gender regimes and persistent cultural stereotypes, providing an illuminating history of women, sexuality and the body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Jimerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 152615983X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526159830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 6.60w x 1.00d","brand":"Lauren Jimerson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44068468490495,"sku":"9781526159830","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b27e89c-5f73-4448-a4e7-f3ff0bb309f1.jpg?v=1685419177","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/painting-her-pleasure-lauren-jimerson-9781526159830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}