Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation (Interplay S.) - Softcover

Solomon-Godeau, Abigail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500280371 ISBN 13: 9780500280379

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Male Trouble Received ideas about masculinity and Neoclassical art and visual culture are challenged here. The text aims to show how the masculine ideal raises questions about the fashioning of masculinity itself, the book drawing on feminist, psychoanalytical and critical theory, and cultural and art history.

About this title

Synopsis:

Why did the male nude dominate French art through the French Revolution and then largely disappear? In this pioneering book which challenges received ideas about masculinity and neoclassical visual culture, Abigail Solomon-Godeau shows how the masculine ideal, whether in the guise of virile hero or passive youths, then or now, raises important questions about the fashioning of masculinity itself. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytical and critical theory, as well as cultural and art history, this volume "completely recasts the gender question, not only for 18th-century history and art history, but for the entire history of western culture", as the eminent historian Professor Lynn Hunt has written.

About the Author:

Solomon-Godeau is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0500280371
• ISBN 13: 9780500280379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264