Full Description
This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art - the naked body.
Beginning with reflections on what denuding entails and means, the volume then shifts to a consideration of body politics in the context of Black political empowerment, disability, and queer and Indigenous politics of representation. Themes including the animal nude, the male nude, and nudity in childhood are also considered. The final section examines the nude from the perspective of the artist and the artist's model.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, gender studies, queer studies, screen studies, and trans studies.
Contents
On the Nude: Addressing Old and New Perspectives
Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris
Part 1: On Denuding
The Dagenham Idol: A Neolithic Wooden Figurine Denuded
Nicholas Chare and Nathanael Price
Poking Out 'the Soft Part': The Raw and the Cooked Body in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Maria Margaroni
Discursive Blurring in Representations of Classical Rapes and Abductions
Ersy Contogouris
Writing and Nudity: Nelly Arcan and Vanessa Beecroft's Girls
Martine Delvaux
Part 2: Body Politics and the Nude
Images of Solace: Looking beyond Violence in Cassils's Art
I. Milan Cail
S[H]E: Black Body Politics and Gender
Lisa E. Farrington
Un-shaming the Greenlandic Female Body: The Indigenous Nude in Performance Art
Kirsten Thisted
Watching One's Back: Self-Portraits of Disabled Women's Backs as Provocative and Protective
Ann Millet-Gallant
Part 3: Photography and the Nude
Nan Goldin's Sag Harbor Pictures
Emma Wilson
Creating a Space and a (Visual) Language in the Work of Laura Aguilar
Ann Marie Leimer
The Animal Nude: Pony Play and Deborah Bright's Being & Riding Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare
Part 4: The Male Nude
Queeriosity: Does Hair Have a Gender? Around Del LaGrace Volcano, Daniela Comani, Katarzyna Kozyra, Ana Mendieta, and Cindy Sherman
Frédérique Villemur
Art, Aesthetics, and Male Genitalia
Richard Leppert
Imperfect Beauty: Nudity, Classicism, Race, and Homoerotic Desire in the Male Nudes of George Dureau
James Smalls
Part 5: On Being Nude
A Short Story About a Big Healing (Extracts)
Joanna Frueh
Looking beyond the Image: Cassils in Conversation with Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris
Cassils
Ways of Connecting with the Secret World behind the Life Model: Sarah R. Phillips in Conversation with Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris
Sarah R. Phillips
Notes Introducing '(Unfinished) Soliloquy of a Nude'
Kathleen G. Williamson
(Unfinished) Soliloquy of a Nude
Joanna Frueh
Joanna Frueh
