03411oam 2200673I 450 991081329970332120241021232915.01-134-69667-11-134-69668-X1-280-31875-90-203-44870-710.4324/9780203448700(CKB)111056485533624(EBL)166168(OCoLC)51161504(SSID)ssj0000149003(PQKBManifestationID)11162075(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149003(PQKBWorkID)10236116(PQKB)10561704(OCoLC)646725970(MiAaPQ)EBC166168(Au-PeEL)EBL166168(CaPaEBR)ebr10070597(CaONFJC)MIL31875(EXLCZ)9911105648553362420180331d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrErotic ambiguities the female nude in art /Helen McDonald1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2001.1 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-17099-0 0-415-17098-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; EROTIC AMBIGUITIES: The female nude in art; Copyright; CONTENTS; PLATES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 FEMINISM, AMBIGUITY AND THE IDEAL; 2 RE-VISIONING THE FEMALE NUDE; 3 HISTORICAL AMBIGUITY; 4 SEEING AMBIGUITY; 5 GENDER AMBIGUITY; 6 MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH AMBIGUITY; 7 TURNING AMBIGUITY AROUND; 8 HYBRID AMBIGUITIES; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEXArt 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 patriarchal representations of the female nude to contemporary, 'postfeminist' practices, influenced by theories of performativity, queer theory and postcolonialism. 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.Female nude in artFeminism in artGender identity in artWomen artistsPsychologyFemale nude in art.Feminism in art.Gender identity in art.Women artistsPsychology.704.9424McDonald Helen1949,1636695MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813299703321Erotic ambiguities3978091UNINA