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The spectacular body : science, method, and meaning in the work of Degas

Title
The spectacular body : science, method, and meaning in the work of Degas / Anthea Callen.
Author
Callen, Anthea.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995.

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Description
xii, 244 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
Subject
  • Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 > Themes, motives
  • Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 > Aesthetics
  • Women in art
  • Sex in art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-235) and index.
Contents
  • 1. Physiognomy and Difference. The Legible Head. Anatomy and Race. Anatomy and Class. Anatomy and Gender. Degas's Little Dancer of Fourteen Years. Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? Physiognomy, Gender and Class -- 2. Reviewing Prostitution. Prostitution and Marginality. Profit Margins. Prostitution and Public Hygiene. Clandestinity: Crime, Disease and Revolution. Prostitution and Class. Rebirth of the 'Born' Prostitute. Lesbianism, Heterosexuality and Femininity. Hysterical Disorder and the 'Femmes folles de leurs corps'. Bourgeois Marriage and Sexuality. Palaces of Pleasure: the grande tolerance and the Department Store -- 3. The Invisible Man. The Monotypes and Bather Pastels. Prostitution and the Narratives of Sexual Conquest. The Naked and the Nude. Sight and Surveillance. The Sequestered Perversion. The Discourse of Discretion. Voyeurism and Sexual Guilt. The Keyhole Viewpoint -- 4. Lines of Thought. Technique and Difference: Drawing, Colour and Spectacle. Light, Colour and Clair-obscur.
  • Light and Sight. Pastel: Means and Meaning. Pastel, Line and Touch -- 5. Hygiene and Dirt - Gaze and Touch. Woman as Transgressor. The Politics of Hygiene. Degas's Bathers: Gaze and Touch. Bathers, Gender and Personal Hygiene. Pastel, Touche and Gaze. The Bathers and the Critics. Bathing: the Forbidden Sight and the Gendered Spectator -- 6. Privileged Sights/Sites of Privilege. Public Places, Male Spaces. Public Sights. Public Inconveniences. Spectators and Spectacles. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman. At the Louvre Dissected. Method and Meaning: The Function of Sight. The Model and the Masquerade.
ISBN
0300054432
LCCN
94030122
OCLC
  • 30893446
  • ocm30893446
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries