The figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned,
fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women
filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. Filmmakers Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat, and
American photographer working in Paris, Nan Goldin, return to the
paintings of Titian, Velázquez, Goya, Courbet, and others,
re-imagining, and re-purposing, their images of female beauty,
display, (auto)eroticism, and intimacy. This book, a sensuous
evocation of these feminist works, claims a female-identified
pleasure in looking. The artists explored align images of repose
and sensuality with other images of horizontality and proneness, of
strong emotional content, images of erotic involvement, of
vulnerability, of bodily contortion, of listlessness, grief, and
depression. The reclining nude is for all three artists a starting
point for a reflection on the relation of film, projections, and
still photography, to painting, and a sustained re-imagining of the
meanings conjured through serial returns to a particular pose. This
book claims that the image of the reclining nude is compelling, for
female-identified artists – and for all allied in feeling and
picturing femininity – in the sensitive, ethically adventurous,
politically complex feminist issues it engages. The reclining nude
is an image of passivity, of submission, of hedonism. It allows
thought about passivity as pleasure, about depression and grief
figured posturally, about indolence as a form of resistance and
anarchy. Through this image, female-identified artists have claimed
freedom to offer new focus on these extremes of emotion. They are
re-imagining horizontality.
General
| Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 65 |
| Release date: |
October 2019 |
| Authors: |
Emma Wilson
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78962-008-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-78962-008-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781789620085 |
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