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Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830-1908

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Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830-1908 - Pointon, Marcia
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The human body, particularly the female body in the nineteenth-century, is central to Western painting. Images such as Delacroix's Liberty on the Barricades and Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe are so well known that the question of how the gendered body functions in them is often overlooked. In this detailed feminist art-historical study of the body in general and the nude in particular, Marcia Pointon explores the narrative structures of a series of major European and American paintings and other images, mapping her ...

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Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830-1908 1990, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521385282

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Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830-1908 1990, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521409995

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