Erotic Ambiguities The Female Nude in Art By: Helen McDonald Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415170994, 0415170990 eText ISBN: 9781134696673, 1134696671 Edition: 1st Pages: 272 Copyright year: 2000 Format: EPUB Available from $ 18.78 USD SKU 9781134696673R90 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 dismantle the exclusive, classical ideal enshrined in the figure of the nude, and how they have broadened the scope of the ideal to include differences of race, ethnicity, sexuality and disability as well as gender. McDonald discusses the work of a wide range of women artists, including Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, Mary Duffy, Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffatt, Pat Brassington and Sally Smart. She traces the shift in feminist art practices from the early challenge to partriarchal representations of the female nude to contemporary, 'postfeminist' practices, influenced by theories of performativity, queer theory and postcoloniality. McDonald argues that feminist efforts to develop a more positive representation of the female body need to be reconsidered, in the face of the resistant ambiguities and hybrid complexities of visual art in the late 1990s. Additional ISBNs 9780203551448, 9780203448700, 9786610318759, 9781280318757, 9781134696680, 9781134696673, 9781134696635, 0203551443, 0203448707, 6610318751, 1280318759, 113469668X, 1134696671, 1134696639, 9780415170987, 9780415170994, 0415170982, 0415170990 Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/v44bF3
