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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"female nude"”.
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Reengaging with the Art-Historical Female-Nude Subject through Feminist Deconstruction in Contemporary Painting
… be used to reengage with the art-historical female-nude subject through its feminist deconstruction – and what does this mean in relation to contemporary art? There is still a tendency among scholars to privilege formal analysis of an artwork at the expense of discussing (gendered) identity …
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Sacred, Sensual and Sublime: An Iconographic Study of the Female Nude in the Murals of Diego Rivera
… invented diverse allegories which featured the female nude. These allegories glorify the racial and cultural roots of Mexico's indigenous people. This thesis investigates Rivera's murals, the allegorical images and symbols associated with the female nude and the pictorial sources of the artist's …
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Re: Drawing. Reconfiguring a feminist response to life drawing practice.
… attitudes and feminist perceptions of the female nude within the context of life drawing practices. The research interrogates the problematisation of life-drawing practice for female practitioners, proposing that perceived tensions and conflicts can be resolved through practice-based …
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938): Early Female Nudes in Landscapes
… how Ernst Ludwig Kirchner reconceived the female nude within the two contexts of Expressionism and the German nudist movement. In particular, it looks to Kirchner’s early paintings, executed between 1909 and 1914, of female nudes in landscape settings to determine how Kirchner operated …
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Magritte and the Muse
… evident in the artist's paintings of the female nude produced from 1930-1962. Today, these of Magritte's pieces beg feminist analysis. The artist's crude, rather misogynistic treatment of the female body works on two levels. It is initially an art for Magritte, a means by which he can …
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Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick
… feminist art history and representations of the female nude, the metaphysics of modernism and abstract art, and late twentieth century practices of landscape painting, and in a dialectic with artists, not restricted to those of Native American descent, whose work articulates physical, …
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Resisting aggression : Graphic re-presentations for other bodies
… culture since the Enlightenment period. As a female artist, I want to explore the space in art of both the female body and the community body. This work seeks to position the female body within the "form" of her subjectivity, to destabilize patriarchal strongholds through the displacement of …
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Dissecting the erotic : art and sexuality in mid-Victorian medical anatomy
… was sensitive to this hostile climate to nude representations. In the years immediately preceding the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 that defined the category of “pornography,” anatomical illustration was being purged of sexual connotations as part of an attempt to consolidate medicine …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
… portray the attempted seduction of a provocative female nude by two old men, a scene which explicitly manifests "lasciviousness" and "seductive charm." This dissertation examines why these erotically charged prints of Susanna and the Elders flourished amidst the ubiquitous condemnation of …
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KALEIDOSCOPE VISION: MODERN PERSPECTIVES IN THE WORK OF PEGINICOL MACLEOD
Positioning the work of Canadian artist Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904-1949) as a dynamic negotiation of modernism, this thesis examines the significance of everyday life and embodied existence to her artistic practice. By representationally revising domesticity, tactically modifying her home …