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Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity
Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity, <i>The Nude</i> explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality t, Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity, The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality t, Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity
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  • Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity
  • Written by author Richard Leppert
  • Published by Westview Press, December 2006
  • The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality t
  • Compellingly written and extensively illustrated, this text is ideal for courses in the history and appreciation of Western art as well as cultural studies.
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Illustrations     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
Introduction: The State of Being without Clothes-in Art     1
Outlining the Territory     1
Seeing and the Social Practice of Making Sense     3
Seeing to Know/Knowing to See     5
Limits of Engagement     7
What's Nude?     8
Who's Got the Look?     11
Needing to See     15
Fooling     16
Deception and Erotic Desire     18
The Perplexing Sight of Men     20
Representing the Young: Innocence, Nakedness, and the Adult Imaginary     27
Children and the Adult Imaginary     28
Innocence and Contradiction     40
Recalibrating the Moral Compass     44
Whose Gaze?     47
Boys and Their Future     57
Race and the Phallus     66
Youth, Death, and Sanctioned Desire     69
The Female Nude: Surfaces of Desire     81
Originating in Sin     81
Cold Comforts     87
Turning the Tables (1)     91
Figments of an Imagination     102
Colonizing the Body     113
Inviting Revenge     122
Nude asProstitute     126
Looking Back     143
For the Self     149
One Couple     157
The Male Nude: Identity and Denial     161
Where to Look     161
Saintly Looks     167
Christ/Man     172
Claims and Contradictions     180
Body Reversal?     185
Genital Confrontation     188
The Bath     194
Measured Difference: Matters of Black and White     198
The Evil Other     204
Studio     212
Turning the Tables (2)     221
Anti-Narcissism and Zones of (Dis)Pleasure     226
Afterword     235
The Matter of Looking     235
Naked Transgression     239
The Body and Photography     240
Erotics?     243
Bathed in Desire     249
Notes     259
Works Cited     291
Index     309


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