The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870-1910

Download or read book The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870-1910 written by Heather Dawkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the fine art nude, print culture, and censorship, Heather Dawkins explores how artists, art critics, politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges evaluated the nude. She reveals how spectatorship of the nude was refracted through the ideals of art, femininity, republican liberty, and public decency. Dawkins also investigates how women reshaped private perception of the nude to accommodate their own experience and subjectivity.