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Pointon, Marcia

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Acknowledgements

Marcia Pointon

Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

Acknowledgements

Author

Marcia Pointon

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22830

Acknowledgements

In writing this book I have benefited from conversations and discussion with many people too numerous to list, all of whom I would like to thank. I owe a particular debt to Kathleen Adler, John Barrell, Geoff Bennington, Rachel Bowlby, Evelyn Cohen, Karl Figlio, Kate Flint, John Furse, Tamar Garb, Tag Gronberg, John House, Ludmilla Jordanova, Cora Kaplan, Nigel Llewellyn, David Mellor, Lynda Nead, Sian Reynolds, Adrian Rifkin, Jacqueline Rose, Dorothy Scruton, Lindsay Smith and Lisa Tickner.

Norman Bryson has been both an encouraging and a critical editor and I owe much to his perceptive comments and suggestions. John Trevitt of Cambridge University Press has enabled me to benefit from his scrupulous editorial skills, and I owe much to his close and sceptical reading. Trudi Tate has made copy-editing both interesting and creative.

Chapter 3 appeared in slightly different forms in Ideas and Production, 5 (1986) and in Women, State and Revolution: Essays on Power and Gender in Europe since 1789, ed. S. Reynolds, 1986. An early version of chapter 5 was published in Feminist Review, 22 (Spring 1986).

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BOOKNaked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

Marcia Pointon

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22827

The human body, particularly the female body in the nineteenth century, is central to Western painting. Images such as Delacroix's Liberty on the Barricades and Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe are so well known that the question of how the gendered body functions in them is often overlooked. In this feminist art-historical study of the body in general and the nude in particular, Marcia Pointon explores the narrative structures of a series of major European and American paintings and other images, mapping her interpretations on the historiography of nineteenth-century painting and employing an innovative theoretical methodology to demonstrate how the visual representation of gendered bodies works to articulate power relations that are to be understood in terms of the symbolic and the psychic as part of the historical.

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Marcia Pointon

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date January 1990 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780521385282

EISBN 9780300272024

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