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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Tamar Garb |
ISBN: | 0500018421 9780500018422 0500280495 9780500280492 |
OCLC Number: | 39651988 |
Description: | 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Ch. 1. Gustave Caillebotte's Male Figures: Masculinity, Muscularity and Modernity -- Ch. 2. Modelling the Male Body: Physical Culture, Photography and the Classical Ideal -- Ch. 3. James Tissot's 'Parisienne' and the Making of the Modern Woman -- Ch. 4. Powder and Paint: Framing the Feminine in Georges Seurat's Young Woman Powdering Herself -- Ch. 5. Painterly Plenitude: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Fantasy of the Feminine -- Ch. 6. Paul Cezanne's The Eternal Feminine and the Erotics of Vision -- Ch. 7. Cezanne's Late Bathers: Modernism and Sexual Difference. |
Series Title: | Interplay (New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson) |
Responsibility: | Tamar Garb. |
Abstract:
A study of the depiction of differences in gender in late nineteenth century France. The author begins with a study of the male figures of Caillebotte and progresses to consider photographs of the movement of the male body. Then, she considers contemporary views of women through the work of Tissot, Seurat, Renoir, and Cezanne.
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