The Female Nude - Art, Obscenity and Sexuality (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition

List of Images

Introduction

Part 1: Theorizing the Female Nude

1. Framing the Female Body

2. A Discourse on the Naked and the Nude

3. A Study of Ideal Art

4. Aesthetics and the Female Nude

5. Obscenity and the Sublime

Part 2: Redrawing the Lines

6. ‘The Damaged Venus’

7. The Framework of Tradition

8. The Lessons of the Life Class

9. Art Criticism and Sexual Metaphor

10. Breaking Open the Boundaries

11. Redrawing the Lines

Part 3: Cultural Distinctions

12. Sacred Frontiers

13. Pure and Motivated Pleasure

14. Policing the Boundaries

15. Displaying the Female Body

16. Erotic Art: A Frame for Desire.

Bibliography

Index

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Series:	Routledge Classics
Release date:	May 2024
Authors:	Lynda Nead
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	234
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-264175-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Promotions
LSN:	1-03-264175-4
Barcode:	9781032641751

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