Naked authority : the body in western painting, 1830-1908
Pointon, Marcia R.
Naked authority : the body in western painting, 1830-1908 - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990 - Cambridge new art history and criticism .
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.
9780300272024 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.
0300272022
Human figure in art
Nude in art
Painting, Modern--19th century
Painting, Modern--20th century
Women in art
Naked authority : the body in western painting, 1830-1908 - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990 - Cambridge new art history and criticism .
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.
9780300272024 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.
0300272022
Human figure in art
Nude in art
Painting, Modern--19th century
Painting, Modern--20th century
Women in art