Ingres's eroticized bodies : retracing the serpentine line / Carol Ockman.

Author
Ockman, Carol [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995.
Description
xi, 178 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

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    • Yale publications in the history of art (Unnumbered) [More in this series]
    • Yale publications in the history of art
    Summary note
    This provocative book - the first full-length feminist and sociohistorical study of Ingres's art - explores the meanings behind the fluid, distorted, and sensualized bodies that populate these works. Carol Ockman traces the shift in late eighteenth-century French art from the neoclassical representation of the heroic male to the sensualized, homoerotic male nude to the nineteenth-century emphasis on the female nude. She then explores the problems posed by the increasing identification of the sensual with the female body, demonstrating that both neoclassicism and modernism sanction an ideal that conjoins the sensual and feminine with the deformed and bestial.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-171) and index.
    Contents
    • Profiling homoeroticism: Achilles receiving the ambassadors of Agamemnon
    • A woman's pleasure: The Grand odalisque
    • Two large eyebrows A l'Orientale: the Baronne de Rothschild
    • This flatulent hand: noneteenth-century criticism
    • Half octopus, half tropical flower: modernist criticism
    • Backbone.
    ISBN
    • 0300059612
    • 9780300059618
    LCCN
    94034311
    OCLC
    31010806
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