Read Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation

Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

4.9/5 (28649 ratings)

Description:Why did the male nude become an object of spectacle and erotic display in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Why was the male nude later eclipsed by the female nude? Why have historians ignored this "crisis" in the representation of masculinity, characterized by a taste for feminized male bodies? In this pioneering and compelling book, Abigail Solomon-Godeau shows that the masculine ideal, whether in the guise of martial, virile heroes or languishing, disempowered youths, raises important questions about the fashioning of masculinity itself. Examining the different forms of ideal manhood in relation to the cataclysms of the French Revolution and to international Neoclassicism, she explores how and why the beautiful male body dominated the visual culture of the time and appealed so powerfully to male spectators.Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and critical theory, as well as on art and cultural history, Solomon-Godeau proposes a radical revision of Neoclassical visual culture as it relates to the emerging bourgeois order, demonstrating how both reflect the status of women.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation. To get started finding Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0500280371

Description: Why did the male nude become an object of spectacle and erotic display in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Why was the male nude later eclipsed by the female nude? Why have historians ignored this "crisis" in the representation of masculinity, characterized by a taste for feminized male bodies? In this pioneering and compelling book, Abigail Solomon-Godeau shows that the masculine ideal, whether in the guise of martial, virile heroes or languishing, disempowered youths, raises important questions about the fashioning of masculinity itself. Examining the different forms of ideal manhood in relation to the cataclysms of the French Revolution and to international Neoclassicism, she explores how and why the beautiful male body dominated the visual culture of the time and appealed so powerfully to male spectators.Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and critical theory, as well as on art and cultural history, Solomon-Godeau proposes a radical revision of Neoclassical visual culture as it relates to the emerging bourgeois order, demonstrating how both reflect the status of women.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation. To get started finding Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation

Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation

More Books

Rosemary Laing

Rosemary Laing

Mistaken Identities

Mistaken Identities

Mistaken Identities by Abigail Solomon-Godeau (1992-11-11)

Mistaken Identities by Abigail Solomon-Godeau (1992-11-11)

Inverted Odysseys. Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman. Edited by Shelley Rice, with contributions by Lynn Gumpert, Lucy Lippard, Jonas Mekas, Ted Mooney, Shelley Rice, Abigail Solomon-Godeau.

Inverted Odysseys. Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman. Edited by Shelley Rice, with contributions by Lynn Gumpert, Lucy Lippard, Jonas Mekas, Ted Mooney, Shelley Rice, Abigail Solomon-Godeau.

Photography at the Dock (Media and Society) (Volume 4)

Photography at the Dock (Media and Society) (Volume 4)

THTK (2010-present) by Abigail Solomon-Godeau (2013-10-31)

THTK (2010-present) by Abigail Solomon-Godeau (2013-10-31)

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Organized by Cornelia Butler. Essays by Cornelia Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau...

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Organized by Cornelia Butler. Essays by Cornelia Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau...

[(Rosemary Laing )] [Author: Abigail Solomon-Godeau] [Aug-2012]

[(Rosemary Laing )] [Author: Abigail Solomon-Godeau] [Aug-2012]

Birgit J?rgenssen by Abigail Solomon-Godeau (2010-03-31)

Birgit J?rgenssen by Abigail Solomon-Godeau (2010-03-31)