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Author Leppert, Richard D.
Title The nude : the cultural rhetoric of the body in the art of Western modernity / Richard Leppert.
Publication Info Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2007.


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Descript xvi, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. Introduction : the state of being without clothes - in art -- Outlining the territory -- Seeing and the social practice of making sense -- Seeing to know/knowing to see -- Limits of engagement -- What's a nude? -- Who's got the look? -- Needing to see -- Fooling -- Deception and erotic desire -- The perplexing sight of men -- ch. 2. Representing the young : innocence, nakedness, and the adult imaginary -- Children and the adult imaginary -- Innocence and contradiction -- Recalibrating the moral compass -- Whose gaze? -- Boys and their future -- Race and the phallus -- Youth, death, and sanctioned desire -- ch. 3. The female nude : surfaces of desire -- Originating in sin -- Cold comforts -- Turning the tables (1) -- Figments of an imagination -- Colonizing the body -- Inviting revenge -- Nude as prostitute -- Looking back -- For the self -- One couple
ch. 4. The male nude : identity and denial -- Where to look -- Saintly looks -- Christ/man -- Claims and contradictions -- Body reversal? -- Genital confrontation -- The bath -- Measured difference : mattes of black and white -- The evil other -- Studio -- Turning the tables (2) -- Anti-narcissism and zones of (dis)pleasure -- ch. 5. Afterword -- The matter of looking -- Naked transgression -- The body and photography -- Erotics? -- Bathed in desire -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
ISBN 9780813343501 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081334350X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Author Leppert, Richard D.
Subject Nude in art.
Art and society.
Descript xvi, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. Introduction : the state of being without clothes - in art -- Outlining the territory -- Seeing and the social practice of making sense -- Seeing to know/knowing to see -- Limits of engagement -- What's a nude? -- Who's got the look? -- Needing to see -- Fooling -- Deception and erotic desire -- The perplexing sight of men -- ch. 2. Representing the young : innocence, nakedness, and the adult imaginary -- Children and the adult imaginary -- Innocence and contradiction -- Recalibrating the moral compass -- Whose gaze? -- Boys and their future -- Race and the phallus -- Youth, death, and sanctioned desire -- ch. 3. The female nude : surfaces of desire -- Originating in sin -- Cold comforts -- Turning the tables (1) -- Figments of an imagination -- Colonizing the body -- Inviting revenge -- Nude as prostitute -- Looking back -- For the self -- One couple
ch. 4. The male nude : identity and denial -- Where to look -- Saintly looks -- Christ/man -- Claims and contradictions -- Body reversal? -- Genital confrontation -- The bath -- Measured difference : mattes of black and white -- The evil other -- Studio -- Turning the tables (2) -- Anti-narcissism and zones of (dis)pleasure -- ch. 5. Afterword -- The matter of looking -- Naked transgression -- The body and photography -- Erotics? -- Bathed in desire -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
ISBN 9780813343501 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081334350X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Leppert, Richard D.
Subject Nude in art.
Art and society.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 7th Floor  N 7572 L5  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 BJL 7th Floor  N 7572 L5  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Nude in art.
Art and society.
Descript xvi, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- ch. 1. Introduction : the state of being without clothes - in art -- Outlining the territory -- Seeing and the social practice of making sense -- Seeing to know/knowing to see -- Limits of engagement -- What's a nude? -- Who's got the look? -- Needing to see -- Fooling -- Deception and erotic desire -- The perplexing sight of men -- ch. 2. Representing the young : innocence, nakedness, and the adult imaginary -- Children and the adult imaginary -- Innocence and contradiction -- Recalibrating the moral compass -- Whose gaze? -- Boys and their future -- Race and the phallus -- Youth, death, and sanctioned desire -- ch. 3. The female nude : surfaces of desire -- Originating in sin -- Cold comforts -- Turning the tables (1) -- Figments of an imagination -- Colonizing the body -- Inviting revenge -- Nude as prostitute -- Looking back -- For the self -- One couple
ch. 4. The male nude : identity and denial -- Where to look -- Saintly looks -- Christ/man -- Claims and contradictions -- Body reversal? -- Genital confrontation -- The bath -- Measured difference : mattes of black and white -- The evil other -- Studio -- Turning the tables (2) -- Anti-narcissism and zones of (dis)pleasure -- ch. 5. Afterword -- The matter of looking -- Naked transgression -- The body and photography -- Erotics? -- Bathed in desire -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
ISBN 9780813343501 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081334350X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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