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, various, occasionally startling--and
through them, Linda Nochlin explores the contradictions and
dissonances that mark experience as well as art. Her book--about
art, the body, beauty, and ways of viewing--confronts the issues
posed in representations particularly of the female body in the art
of impressionists, modern masters, and contemporary realists and
post-modernists.
Nochlin begins by focusing on the painterly preoccupation with
bathing, whether at the beach, in lakes and rivers, in public
swimming pools, or in bathtubs. In discussions of Renoir, Manet,
Cezanne, Bonnard, and Picasso, of late-twentieth-century and
contemporary artists such as Philip Pearlstein, Alice Neel, and
Jenny Saville, of grotesque imagery, the concept of beauty, and the
body in realism, she develops an interpretive collage incorporating
the readings of differing, strong-willed, female viewpoints. Among
these is, of course, Nochlin's own, a vantage point subtly charted
here through a longtime engagement with art, art history, and
artists.
In many ways a personal book, "Bathers, Bodies, Beauty" brings
to bear a lifetime of looking at, teaching, talking about,
wrestling with, loving, and hating art to reveal and complicate the
lived and felt--the visceral--experience of art.
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