The Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity - Paperback

The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race.

• | Author: Richard Leppert
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 081334350X
• | ISBN-13: 9780813343501