Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-Siecle France (Interplay)
ISBN-13:
9780500280492
ISBN-10:
0500280495
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Tamar Garb
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson
Format:
Paperback
240 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780500280492
ISBN-10:
0500280495
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Tamar Garb
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson
Format:
Paperback
240 pages
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Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-Siecle France (Interplay) (ISBN-13: 9780500280492 and ISBN-10: 0500280495), written by authors
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Bodies of Modernity explores the ways in which men's and women's bodies are represented in late nineteenth-century France.
Thought to be unequivocally different from one another, modern men and women were expected to express their sexuality and social positions in the clothes they wore, the poses they struck, and the behavior they exhibited. In a series of case studies, Bodies of Modernity looks at works by Cezanne, Renoir, Seurat, Tissot, and Caillebotte as well as photographs of male body builders to establish an image of the modern body. Well-known works such as Renoir's Nude in the Sunlight, Seurat's Young Woman Powdering Herself, and Cezanne's Large Bathers are given new interpretations, while lesser known paintings like Tissot's series on The Women of Paris or Caillebotte's iconoclastic Man at the Bath are looked at seriously for the first time.Bodies of Modernity is an original account of one of the best-loved periods in Western art history. By taking "figure and flesh" as its focus, it bypasses traditional art historical categories and style labels to provide a reading of the work of the Impressionists and their contemporaries that gets to the heart of French society of the period.
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