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List of illustrations

  • The Tempest
  • Venus in a Landscape
  • Fêtes Vénitiennes
  • Dancing Woman
  • William Rush Carving the Allegorical Figure of the Schuykill River (study)
  • The Artist and His Model
  • Sabina von Steinbach
  • Portrait of Young Man with Lute
  • Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
  • Le Modèle s'amuse
  • A Student of Beauty
  • Bust of Prince Albert (left), Bust of Clytie (middle), Bust of J. Low (right)
  • Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)
  • Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), detail
  • The Agnew Clinic
  • The Agnew Clinic, detail
  • Between the Rounds
  • Portrait of Margaret Eakins in a Skating Costume
  • Liberty Leading the People
  • French postage stamps
  • Liberty
  • A Magyar
  • Revolution
  • Le Salut Public
  • First Seal of the French Republic
  • L'Arbre de la liberté
  • Polish cartoon
  • Death of Marat
  • The Death of Marat II (Marat Assassiné)
  • Greeks on the Ruins of Missolonghi
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Woman
  • The Judgement of Paris
  • The Great Bathers
  • Les Grandes Baigneuses
  • Vision of Endymion
  • Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
  • Take Your Son, Sir!
  • Drawing for plate XIII in William Hunter, The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus
  • Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe)
  • The Conquest of the Franche Comté
  • Go Wild in the Country
  • The Painter's Studio
  • Mrs. Manet Entertains in the Garden
  • The Eton Boy I
  • The Eton Boy II
  • Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
  • Edouard Manet presents The After-Dinner Bore
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Description: Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908
Contents
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Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Description: Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908
The essays collected in this book address questions of what I will call intersubjectivity. The subjectivities of artists, of makers of images, are interpolated in readings – whether consciously or unconsciously – by readers whose other, different, but in some ways complementary, subjectivities are brought into play by this process...
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Description: Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908
In the succeeding chapters of this book I shall be undertaking a series of close analyses of particular images and groups of images of the body. In this first chapter I shall map historiographic and theoretical issues within which the nude in Western art poses itself as problematic...
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Description: Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908
As institutions, psychoanalysis and art history have much in common. Indeed, it might be argued that they share a point of origin – Vienna around the turn of the last century – and that they work within a common body of material...
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Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Guiding the People, more often popularly known as Liberty on the Barricades (plate 19), is one of Europe’s most familiar images...
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Some time between 1908 and the time of his death in 1919, Renoir, severely crippled with arthritis and rheumatism, had himself photographed in his studio at Cagnes...
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This chapter explores particular paintings by male artists which work with images of female physiology; like the previous chapter, it is grounded in the view that a categorisation of the male artist as inalienable, ahistorical and monumental which is a feature of the historiography of art is untenable in today’s analysis of visual culture of the past...
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Manet has been a focus of attention for art historians during the past decade. In an important sense...
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