Bathers, bodies, beauty the visceral eye /

To the eye of some viewers, Renoir's Great Bathers are the very picture of female sensuality and beauty. To others, they embody a whole tradition of masculine mastery and feminine display. Yet others find in the bathers a feminine fantasy of bodily liberation. The points of view are many, vario...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nochlin, Linda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Series:Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2004.
Subjects:
Nude in art.
Aesthetics.
Baths in art.
Swimmers in art.
Bathing customs in art.
Nu.
Bains dans l'art.
Baigneurs dans l'art.
nudes (representations)
bathers.
ART / Criticism.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Renoir's Great Bathers Bathing as Practice, Bathing as Representation
  • Chapter 2. Manet's Le Bain The Déjeuner and the Death of the Heroic Landscape
  • Chapter 3. The Man in the Bathtub Picasso's Le Meutre and the Gender of Bathing
  • Chapter 4. Monet'sHôtel des Roches Noires Anxiety and Perspective at the Seashore
  • Chapter 5. Real Beauty The Body in Realism
  • Chapter 6. More Beautiful than a Beautiful Thing The Body, Old Age, Ruin, and Death
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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