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1 online resource (383 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art: An Introduction; 1 The Survival and Reception of the Classical Nude: Venus in the Middle Ages; 2 Male Nudes and Embodied Spirituality in Romanesque Sculpture; 3 The Naked Jongleur in the Margins: Manuscript Contexts for Social Meanings; 4 A Son's Gaze on Noah: Case or Cause of Viriliphobia?; 5 Uncovering the Meanings of Nudity in the Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry; 6 Pubics and Privates: Body Hair in Late Medieval Art |
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7 Nudity as Natural Garment: Seeing Through Adam and Eve's Skin8 Integritas, Proportio, and Claritas: The Body in Tuscan Representations of Baptism, 1300-1450; 9 Christ Bared: Problems of Viewing and Powers of Exposing; 10 Sin or Sexual Pleasure? A Little-Known Nude Bather in a Flemish Book of Hours; 11 Reconsidering the Nude: Northern Tradition and Venetian Innovation; 12 Epilogue; Index of Modern Authors; General Index |
| Summary |
"It is still routinely repeated that representations of the unclothed body in the Middle Ages connoted a site of corruption and sin, in contrast to a new, distinctive, humanistic and even secularizing Renaissance appreciation. But as the contributors to this collection remind us, medieval imagery that incorporated nudity was varied, complex and nuanced. It was a time-honored category of representation that viewers had been accustomed to seeing in the most sacred contexts, but also an opportunity for dissent and transgression, and thus a source of conservative consternation. This volume discloses how nudity in medieval art staged a discourse about sex and gender that informs the iconography of the nude body in Western art up to the present day; in doing so, it offers new insight into the problematic role of the nude in the larger art historical narrative. Addressing a strangely neglected key issue in the history of art, this volume engages the issue of medieval representations of the unclothed human body on theoretical grounds and in a more global way than has been done previously. The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art breaks ground by offering a variety of approaches to explore the meanings of both male and female nudity in European painting, manuscripts and sculpture ranging from the late antique era to the fifteenth century."--Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
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Nude in art.
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Art, Medieval -- Themes, motives.
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nudes (representations)
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Art, Medieval -- Themes, motives
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Nude in art
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351542715 |
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1351542710 |
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