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This study examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the fine art nude, print culture, and censorship, Heather Dawkins explores how artists, art critics, politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges evaluated the nude. She reveals how spectatorship of the nude was refracted through the ideals of art, femininity, republican liberty, and public decency. Dawkins also investigates how women reshaped private perception of the nude to accommodate their own experience and subjectivity.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780521807555
  • ISBN-10: 0521807557
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: February 2002
  • Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 244

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