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Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art
By (author) Helen McDonald
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This work explores how feminist artists have responded to traditional depictions of the ""ideal female body"" which proliferate throughout contemporary visual culture as a ubiquitous marketing tool. Across photography, fashion, painting and performance art, Helen McDonald shows how feminist artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to counter negative images of women and to dismantle the elusive classical ideal enshrined in ""the nude"". Examining the work of key artists from Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, and Mary Duffy, to Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffat, Pat Barrington and Sally Smart, McDonald traces the shift in feminist art practices from the early deconstruction of patriarchal representations to the more ambivalent contemporary practices, to the tensions between ideas of the performativity of gender identity, and art employing ""strategic essentialism"". Analyzing the conflicting ideals produced by, on the one hand, feminist art, and on the other, advertising and pornography, ""Erotic Ambiguities"" argues that feminist art has successfully negotiated a new ideal of the female body based on a principle of inclusiveness, incorporating, within the scope of the ideal, differences of race, e
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 11 Dec 2000
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 262
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 500g
ISBN | 978-0-4151-7099-4
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BISAC | art / subjects & themes / human figure
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