| Description |
342 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2004 |
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Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2004.
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| Contents |
Renoir's Great bathers : bathing as practice, bathing as representation -- Manet's Le bain : the Déjeuner and the death of the heroic landscape -- The man in the bathtub : Picasso's Le meutre and the gender of bathing -- Monet's Hôtel 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and index. |
| Subject |
Nude in art.
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Aesthetics.
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Baths in art.
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Swimmers in art.
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| ISBN |
0674021169 alkaline paper |
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9780674021167 alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780674021167 |
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