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Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting 1830-1908 (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)
Naked Authority The Body in Western Painting 18301908 - Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism
Author: Marcia Pointon
The human body, and in recent times particularly the female body, 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 i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521409995
ISBN-10: 0521409993
Publication Date: 10/26/1990
Pages: 172
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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