The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

by Lynda Nead

The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead's The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this phenomenon from a feminist perspective and ask: how and why did the female nude acquire this status?

In a deft and engaging manner, Lynda Nead explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced, issues which have been reignited by current controversies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032641754
• ISBN13: 9781032641751
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages