Erotic Ambiguities The female nude in art

• Main Author: McDonald, Helen
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York Routledge 2001; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Artists; Body; Cultural Studies; Eroticism; Female nude in art; Feminism in art; Gender identity in art; Gender Studies; Psychology; Women; Women artists; Women artists > Psychology; Feminist Art Practices; practice; Anti-pornography Feminism; Unbound Feet; Interactive Cd Rom; Female Nude; Jennifer Miller; body; Marginalised Sexual Identities; George Stubbs; Melbourne Fashion Festival; Anorexia Nervosa; karen; Test Tube Baby; Della Grace; Australian Visual Culture; Negative Hyperreality; Young Men; Antipornography Feminists; female; Titian's Painting; Ideal Female Body; art; Pro-sex Feminism; Anti-pornography Feminists; Performance Body Art; sherman; Capitalist Marketing; Erotic Ambiguities; performance; cindy; Feminist Art; Feminist Art Criticism; nude; feminist
• ISBN: 9780415170987; 0415170982; 9780415170994; 0415170990
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203448700

Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to d...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- EROTIC AMBIGUITIES: The female nude in art -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 FEMINISM, AMBIGUITY AND THE IDEAL -- 2 RE-VISIONING THE FEMALE NUDE -- 3 HISTORICAL AMBIGUITY -- 4 SEEING AMBIGUITY -- 5 GENDER AMBIGUITY -- 6 MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH AMBIGUITY -- 7 TURNING AMBIGUITY AROUND -- 8 HYBRID AMBIGUITIES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX