The Great American Nude: A History in Art

The Great American Nude: A History in Art

William H. Gerdts
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THROUGHOUT THEIR HISTORY,
Americans have had a highly ambiguous, always fascinating attitude
toward nude subjects in art. In this intelligent, witty book, William H.
Gerdts traces the history of this conflict be¬ tween morality and
artistic freedom from the colonial paintings of Benjamin West and John
Singleton Cop¬ ley to the renaissance of the nude in the work of Tom
Wesselmann, the pop artist, and Philip Pearlstein, the new realist,
whose passionately scrutinized nudes seem to have been topographically
explored rather than seen.
The nude tiptoed into American art during
the colonial period in allegorical and religious guise. The Indian in
nature’s garb (symbolic of primitive sav¬ agery), the half-clothed Mary
Magdalene, and naked Truth Revealed made shy entrances from time to time
in canvases of the period, but it was not until the early nineteenth
century that the nude—in the form of a luxuriously sensual
Danae—received a first triumphant succes de scandale on American soil.
Moving
deeper into the nineteenth century, the author explores the impact of
the Victorian era on such neoclassical sculptors as Horatio Greenough,
whose partially draped statue of George Washington was re¬ ceived with
general disapproval. In spite of public prudishness, however, the
mid-nineteenth century pro¬ duced a multitude of sculptors, both male
and female. Some of their modest nudes—some superb, others
hilarious—still dominate American parks and squares and have, for better
or worse, profoundly influenced our conception of public ornament.
Jahr:
1975
Verlag:
London : Phaidon Press, 1974 [i.e. 1975]
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
224
ISBN 10:
0714816485
ISBN 13:
9780714816487
Datei:
PDF, 23.91 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 1975
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