Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-Siecle France (Interplay: Theory, Arts, History)

by Professor Tamar Garb

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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...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780500018422
  • Publish Date 31 December 2019
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 12 November 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Language English