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Female nude in art. --- Nu féminin dans l'art

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Female nude in art. --- Painting, Modern --- Painting, Modern --- Nu féminin dans l'art --- Peinture --- Peinture

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"Edouard Manet's controversial painting Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe is one of the best-known images in French art. The subject of critical analysis for more than a century, it still defies singular interpretations. This book offers six different readings of the painting. Based on new ideas about its context, production, meaning, and reception, these essays, written specially for this volume by leading scholars of French modern art, incorporate close examinations of the picture's radical style and novel subject, relevant historical developments, and archival material, as well as biographical evidence that prompts psychological inquiries. Shedding new light on the artist and the touchstone work of modernism, Manet's "Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe" also introduces readers to current methodologies in art history and to the multiple ways that this complex painting can be framed."--Jacket.

Manet, Edouard --- Female nude in art. --- Nu féminin dans l'art --- Manet, Edouard, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation --- Nu féminin dans l'art --- Critique et interprétation --- Female nude in art --- 75.071 MANET --- CDL --- Nude in art --- Manet, Édouard, --- Manė, Eduard, --- Manet, Éduard, --- מאנה, אדוארד, --- Manė, Eduard --- Manet, Éduard --- Manet, Édouard

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Already provocative in the seventeenth century, Rembrandt's female nudes continue to elicit strong responses. How did Rembrandt's radical departure from traditional ways of representing the naked female body measure up in the eyes of his contemporaries? What is it about these extraordinary works that generates such powerful emotions, varying from outright condemnation to celebration? The author addresses such questions by examining the choices that Rembrandt made when faced with pictorial conventions established by renowned forebears, including Rubens and Titian. He demonstrates how Rembrandt reformulated contemporary artistic ideas on lifelikeness and the unfolding of dramatic narrative, thereby inciting the greatest possible empathy with his chosen subjects. In exploring his topic the author casts new light on Rembrandt's views on the art of painting, his attitude towards antiquity and his sustained rivalry with the works of other artists.

naakte vrouw --- schoonheid (vrouw) --- Rembrandt --- Female nude in art. --- Women in art. --- Nu féminin dans l'art --- Femmes dans l'art --- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, --- Nu féminin dans l'art --- Female nude in art --- Women in art --- Visual Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Nude in art

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"In 1906, soon after Matisse acquired his first African sculpture, he began the first of his nudes based on erotic and ethnographic photographs. This reading of Matisse's early sculpture examines the artist's appropriations from two seemingly disparate visions of the body: commercial nude photography and African sculpture. Why would Matisse synthesize mechanically made traces of actual flesh with the hand-carved abstractions of Pende, Senufo, Baga, and Baule figural sculptures? In the twentieth century, halftone technology in France changed economics of photographic reproduction. The inexpensive illustrated revues where Matisse found substitutes for living models were full of plates, making the female body available for mass consumption as never before. One of the main appeals of African sculpture to Matisse and others was that it appeared as a productive antithesis to this; it represented an alternative experience and understanding of human sexuality. In this, Matisse's primitivism was as much a system of beliefs projected onto African sculptures and actual African bodies, as a series of visual and conceptual borrowings from them. To support this idea, the book uses primary materials from turn-of-the-century ethnography and comparative anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French colonialism. It draws connections between artistic debts and the ideological and historical forces informing them, and plots new study in a now-familiar story of early twentieth-century modernist primitivism. This book challenges an established convention about Matisse--a painter who sculpted merely as a "rest"-- proposing how the sculpture's play with period perceptions of race and gender is key to understanding the artist's fascinations with cultural and sexual origins"--

Female nude in art. --- Sculpture, African --- Nu féminin dans l'art --- Influence. --- Matisse, Henri, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Female nude in art --- Photography, Erotic --- African sculpture --- Sculpture, Sub-Saharan African --- Sub-Saharan African sculpture --- Erotic photography --- Erotica --- Nude in art --- Influence --- Matisse, Henri