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| The exposure of the body through representations of the nude was one of the most controversial issues in Victorian art. In an era that witnessed a broader audience for art and the development of new reproductive technologies, the nude was implicated ina variety of debates concerning public health and morals, which mean it could not be comfortably contained within the confines of high culture.
This beautifully illustrated publication surveys the full range of Victorian representations of female and male figures. While concentrating on painting, sculpture and drawing, it also explores the depiction of the body in other media, including photography, popular illustration and film, exposing issues of morality, sexuality and desire that remain relevant today.
The nude was an important subject for the most famous Victorian artists, includint Leighton, Burne-Jones, Millais and Whistler, as well as for pivotal figures in the history of early English Modernism, such as Sickert and Gwen John.
Alongside artworks by these acknowledged masters the catalogue also illustrates equally fascinating works by lesser-known artists such as Simeon Salomon, Herbert Draper, Edward Onslow Ford, Annie Swynnerton and Henry Scott Tuke. Cutting across conventional categories of style and period, Exposed offers a fresh and challenging vision of Victorian art and culture.
| | | | Controversy surrounding the nude in art is as strong now at the end of the twentieth century as it was during the nineteenth. Victorian paintings of the nude are still hidden from view in the storerooms of galleries and museums. In this major new work, Alison Smith unravels the fascinating background of this situation, and the paradox that the nude was both an image of high culture and an object of public moral outrage. Smith reveals how images of the nude were used at all levels of Victorian culture, from prestigious high-art paintings through to photographs and popular entertainments; and discusses the many views as to whether these were legitimate forms of representation or, in fact, pornography and an incitement to unregulated sexual activity. With many paintings published for the first time, the painters discussed and illustrated in this book include Etty, Leighton, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Millais, Watts and the women artists, Henrietta Rae and Anna Lea Merrit. |
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