The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870-1910 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521807555)

This study examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the fine art nude, print culture, and censorship, Heather Dawkins explores how artists, art critics, politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges evaluated the nude. She reveals how spectatorship of the nude was refracted through the ideals of art, femininity, republican liberty, and public decency. Dawkins also investigates how women reshaped private perception of the nude to accommodate their own experience and subjectivity.

Author: Heather Dawkins
ISBN-10: 0521807557
ISBN-13: 9780521807555
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2002
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.20w x 0.80d