The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870–1910

Heather Dawkins (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

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English

Cambridge University Press
20 June 2002

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Nudes depicted in art; Cultural studies; Gender studies, gender groups

Dawkins 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 shows how spectatorship of the nude was refracted through the ideals of art, femininity, republican liberty, and public decency. An art form made for and by men, the nude was rarely the subject of serious engagement on the part of women. A few, nevertheless, attempted to take up the issues and challenges of the nude. Dawkins investigates in detail how these women reshaped the genre of the nude and its spectatorship in order for it to accommodate their own experience and subjectivity.

By: Heather Dawkins (Simon Fraser University British Columbia)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9780521807555
ISBN 10: 0521807557
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 20 June 2002
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Decency in dispute: viewing the nude; 2. Modelling another view: posing for the nude; 3. Improper appreciation: women and the fine art of the nude; 4. A defiant imagination: Marie de Montifaud, censorship, and the nude; Epilogue.