The Female Nude

Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

Lynda Nead (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

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Routledge
01 May 2024

History of Art & Design Styles; Art Treatments & Subjects; Cultural studies; Feminism & feminist theory

Series: Routledge Classics

The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead's The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this phenomenon from a feminist perspective and ask: how and why did the female nude acquire this status?

In a deft and engaging manner, Lynda Nead explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced, issues which have been reignited by current controversies around the patriarchy, objectification and pornography. Nead brilliantly illustrates the two opposing poles occupied by the female nude in the history of art; at one extreme the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the other, spilling over into the degraded and the obscene. What both have in common, however, is the aim of containing the female body.

Drawing on examples of art and artists from the classical period to the 1980s, The Female Nude paints a devastating picture of the depiction of the female body and remains as fresh and invigorating today as it was at the time of its first publication.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author.

By: Lynda Nead (Birkbeck University of London UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781032641782
ISBN 10: 1032641789
Series: Routledge Classics
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 01 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lynda Nead joined the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck in 1986 and was appointed to the Pevsner Chair of History of Art in 2004. Before coming to Birkbeck, she taught History of Art at the University of Leicester and the University of Kent. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Gresham College, London and Moore Distinguished Professor, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology. She was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2013 (MAE); a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2017 (FRHistS); and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018 (FBA).

Reviews for The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

“... this is a book which will be universally welcomed ... clearly written and beautifully paced.” – Marcia Pointon, Times Higher Educational Supplement “... this is a book which will be universally welcomed ... clearly written and beautifully paced.” – Marcia Pointon, Times Higher Educational Supplement