Exposed : The Victorian Nude

by Alison Smith

• ISBN13: 9780823016334
• ISBN10: 0823016331
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Summary

The epitome of high culture or an assault on public morality? The nude figure was one of the most controversial issues in Victorian art. It was also one of the most conspicuous categories for the visual image at every level, from elite paintings for the Royal Academy to mass-produced photographs and magazine illustrations. Exposed: The Victorian Nudeprovides a fascinating overview of the nude figureboth male and femaleand the intriguing role it played in Victorian art. While it concentrates on painting, sculpture, and drawing, this beautifully illustrated reference also explores the depiction of the body in other mediaincluding photography, popular illustration, advertising, and caricatureand discusses the issues of morality, uality, and desire that are relevant even today. Since nudes were an important subject for most Victorian artists,Exposed: The Victorian Nudeshowcases dazzling artwork from such legendary masters as Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Whistler, and Sargent, as well as pivotal figures of early English modernism. Cutting across the conventional categories of style and period, this guide offers a fresh, engrossing vision of Victorian art and culture unmatched anywhere else. Beautifully produced and full of breathtaking artwork Nudes are perennially popular with art lovers Book serves as a catalog for a traveling exhibition from the prestigious Tate Gallery that will visit several US museums, beginning with the Brooklyn Museum in September 2002

Author Biography

Alison Smith is a curator at Tate Britain and the author of The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality, and Art. She lives in London, England.

Table of Contents

Sponsor's Foreword	p. 6
Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 9
The Nude in Nineteenth-Century Britain: 'The English Nude'	p. 11
Prudery, Pornography and the Victorian Nude (Or, what do we think the butler saw?)	p. 23
Thoughts and Things: Sculpture and the Victorian Nude	p. 37
Catalogue	p. 50
Abbreviations	p. 51
The English Nude	p. 52
The Classical Nude	p. 86
The Private Nude	p. 128
The Artist's Studio	p. 184
Sensation! The Nude in High Art	p. 208
The Modern Nude	p. 248
Bibliography	p. 280
Lenders and Credits	p. 283
Index	p. 284
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