Erotic ambiguities : the female nude in art / / Helen McDonald
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| Autore: |
McDonald Helen <1949, >
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| Titolo: |
Erotic ambiguities : the female nude in art / / Helen McDonald
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 704.9424 |
| Soggetto topico: | Female nude in art |
| Feminism in art | |
| Gender identity in art | |
| Women artists - Psychology | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 B |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Erotic ambiguities |
| ISBN: | 1-134-69667-1 |
| 1-134-69668-X | |
| 1-280-31875-9 | |
| 0-203-44870-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779944603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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