Bathers, bodies, beauty
Subtitle: the visceral eye
By: Linda Nochlin.
Series: The Charles Eliot Norton lectures -- 2004.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780674021167
Subjects: Nude in art; Aesthetics; Baths in art; Swimmers in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Renoir's Great bathers : bathing as practice, bathing as representation; title: Manet's Le bain : the Déjeuner and the death of the heroic landscape; title: The man in the bathtub : Picasso's Le meutre and the gender of bathing; title: Monet's Hôtel des roches noires : anxiety and perspective at the seashore; title: Real beauty : the body in realism; title: More beautiful than a beautiful thing : the body, old age, ruin, and death.