On the Nude: Looking Anew at the Naked Body in Art

by Nicholas Chare (Editor), Ersy Contogouris (Editor)

Overview

This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art – the naked body.

Beginning with reflections on what denuding entails and means, the volume then shifts to a consideration of body politics in the context of Black political empowerment, disability, and queer and Indigenous politics of representation. Themes including the animal nude, the male nude, and nudity in childhood are also considered. The final section examines the nude from the perspective of the artist and the artist’s model.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, gender studies, queer studies, screen studies, and trans studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000480634
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2021
Series:	Routledge Research in Gender and Art
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Nicholas Chare is Professor of Art History at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Ersy Contogouris is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Table of Contents

1. On the Nude: Addressing Old and New Perspectives

Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris

Part 1: On Denuding

2. The Dagenham Idol: A Neolithic Wooden Figurine Denuded

Nicholas Chare and Nathanael Price

3. Poking Out 'the Soft Part': The Raw and the Cooked Body in Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Maria Margaroni

4. Discursive Blurring in Representations of Classical Rapes and Abductions

Ersy Contogouris

5. Writing and Nudity: Nelly Arcan and Vanessa Beecroft’s Girls

Martine Delvaux

Part 2: Body Politics and the Nude

6. Images of Solace: Looking beyond Violence in Cassils’s Art

I. Milan Cail

7. S[H]E: Black Body Politics and Gender

Lisa E. Farrington

8. Un-shaming the Greenlandic Female Body: The Indigenous Nude in Performance Art

Kirsten Thisted

9. Watching One’s Back: Self-Portraits of Disabled Women’s Backs as Provocative and Protective

Ann Millet-Gallant

Part 3: Photography and the Nude

10. Nan Goldin’s Sag Harbor Pictures

Emma Wilson

11. Creating a Space and a (Visual) Language in the Work of Laura Aguilar

Ann Marie Leimer

12. The Animal Nude: Pony Play and Deborah Bright’s Being & Riding Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare

Part 4: The Male Nude

13. Queeriosity: Does Hair Have a Gender? Around Del LaGrace Volcano, Daniela Comani, Katarzyna Kozyra, Ana Mendieta, and Cindy Sherman

Frédérique Villemur

14. Art, Aesthetics, and Male Genitalia

Richard Leppert

15. Imperfect Beauty: Nudity, Classicism, Race, and Homoerotic Desire in the Male Nudes of George Dureau

James Smalls

Part 5: On Being Nude

16. A Short Story About a Big Healing (Extracts)

Joanna Frueh

17. Looking beyond the Image: Cassils in Conversation with Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris

Cassils

18. Ways of Connecting with the Secret World behind the Life Model: Sarah R. Phillips in Conversation with Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris

Sarah R. Phillips

19. Notes Introducing ‘(Unfinished) Soliloquy of a Nude’

Kathleen G. Williamson

20. (Unfinished) Soliloquy of a Nude
    Joanna Frueh

Joanna Frueh