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Erotic Ambiguities - The Female Nude in Art (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,219
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Erotic Ambiguities - The Female Nude in Art (Paperback): Helen McDonald

Erotic Ambiguities - The Female Nude in Art (Paperback)

Helen McDonald

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Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to dismantle the exclusive, classical ideal enshrined in the figure of the nude, and how they have broadened the scope of the ideal to include differences of race, ethnicity, sexuality and disability as well as gender.
McDonald discusses the work of a wide range of women artists, including Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, Mary Duffy, Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffatt, Pat Brassington and Sally Smart. She traces the shift in feminist art practices from the early challenge to partriarchal representations of the female nude to contemporary, 'postfeminist' practices, influenced by theories of performativity, queer theory and postcoloniality. McDonald argues that feminist efforts to develop a more positive representation of the female body need to be reconsidered, in the face of the resistant ambiguities and hybrid complexities of visual art in the late 1990s.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2000
First published: 2001
Authors: Helen McDonald
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-17099-4
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN: 0-415-17099-0
Barcode: 9780415170994

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