Publication

1998 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

63,250 words, Guess

Page Count

253 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number97027042
  • Goodreads4599505

Classifications

  • DDC757/.4/097309045
  • LCCND1292 .M33 1998

Description

This study focuses on selected nudes by seven noted American painters, including Larry Rivers, Tom Wesselmann, Sylvia Sleigh and Joan Semmel, and examines the complex range of issues and ideas associated with the nude in postwar American culture. In a period that witnessed the shaping of sexual liberation by the Kinsey reports, the publication of Playboy, and the feminist critique of sexism and identity, the nude, David McCarthy argues, served as an ideal subject for the return of painting to an engagement with the most important issues of its historical moment.

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