On the Nude

Looking Anew at the Naked Body in Art
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-50459-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1040 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and Art

This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art – the naked body.

Beginning with reflections on what denuding entails and means, the volume then shifts to a consideration of body politics in the context of Black political empowerment, disability, and queer and Indigenous politics of representation. Themes including the animal nude, the male nude, and nudity in childhood are also considered. The final section examines the nude from the perspective of the artist and the artist’s model.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, gender studies, queer studies, screen studies, and trans studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chare, Nicholas

Contogouris, Ersy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Menschen, Häusliches Umfeld

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- On the Nude: Addressing Old and New Perspectives

Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris

Part 1: On Denuding

- The Dagenham Idol: A Neolithic Wooden Figurine Denuded

Nicholas Chare and Nathanael Price

- Poking Out 'the Soft Part': The Raw and the Cooked Body in Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Maria Margaroni

- Discursive Blurring in Representations of Classical Rapes and Abductions

Ersy Contogouris

- Writing and Nudity: Nelly Arcan and Vanessa Beecroft’s Girls

Martine Delvaux

Part 2: Body Politics and the Nude

- Images of Solace: Looking beyond Violence in Cassils’s Art

I. Milan Cail

- S[H]E: Black Body Politics and Gender

Lisa E. Farrington

- Un-shaming the Greenlandic Female Body: The Indigenous Nude in Performance Art

Kirsten Thisted

- Watching One’s Back: Self-Portraits of Disabled Women’s Backs as Provocative and Protective

Ann Millet-Gallant

Part 3: Photography and the Nude

- Nan Goldin’s Sag Harbor Pictures

Emma Wilson

- Creating a Space and a (Visual) Language in the Work of Laura Aguilar

Ann Marie Leimer

- The Animal Nude: Pony Play and Deborah Bright’s Being & Riding Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare

Part 4: The Male Nude

- Queeriosity: Does Hair Have a Gender? Around Del LaGrace Volcano, Daniela Comani, Katarzyna Kozyra, Ana Mendieta, and Cindy Sherman

Frédérique Villemur

- Art, Aesthetics, and Male Genitalia

Richard Leppert

- Imperfect Beauty: Nudity, Classicism, Race, and Homoerotic Desire in the Male Nudes of George Dureau

James Smalls

Part 5: On Being Nude

- A Short Story About a Big Healing (Extracts)

Joanna Frueh

- Looking beyond the Image: Cassils in Conversation with Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris

Cassils

- Ways of Connecting with the Secret World behind the Life Model: Sarah R. Phillips in Conversation with Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris

Sarah R. Phillips

- Notes Introducing ‘(Unfinished) Soliloquy of a Nude’

Kathleen G. Williamson

- (Unfinished) Soliloquy of a Nude
Joanna Frueh

Joanna Frueh

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Chare is Professor of Art History at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Ersy Contogouris is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Université de Montréal, Canada.