1. Everyone else in the class is working on a reclining female nude. 2. Furthermore, these socio-economic factors combined to make the female nude a complicated carrier of meaning. 3. In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern. 4. Representing the female nude After thirty or so years of scholarship, feminism now has a relatively well-established position within art history. 5. The beautiful female nudes in this show, rendered large and golden, are at once sensual, heroic and strong. 6. The female nude has been conceived as an expression of fundamental principles of order and design. 7. The female nude is surely the ultimate test of artistic skill. 8. The primacy of the female nude as a motif of modern art, from Courbet to Kruger, is examined. 9. First the painting community rejected the opportunity to draw a female nude, a subject which over the centuries has inspired the great artists. 10. Eroticism is explored more forcefully in images of the reclining female nude in an adjoining gallery. |