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Bathers, bodies, beauty : the visceral eye / Linda Nochlin.

By: Series: The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2004Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.Description: 342 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 0674021169 (alk. paper)
  • 9780674021167 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 757/.22 22
LOC classification:
  • ND1290.5 .N63 2006
Contents:
Renoir's Great bathers : bathing as practice, bathing as representation -- Manet's Le bain : the DeÌjeuner and the death of the heroic landscape -- The man in the bathtub : Picasso's Le meutre and the gender of bathing -- Monet's HoÌtel des roches noires : anxiety and perspective at the seashore -- Real beauty : the body in realism -- More beautiful than a beautiful thing : the body, old age, ruin, and death.

Renoir's Great bathers : bathing as practice, bathing as representation -- Manet's Le bain : the DeÌjeuner and the death of the heroic landscape -- The man in the bathtub : Picasso's Le meutre and the gender of bathing -- Monet's HoÌtel des roches noires : anxiety and perspective at the seashore -- Real beauty : the body in realism -- More beautiful than a beautiful thing : the body, old age, ruin, and death.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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