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Ingres's Eroticized Bodies : Retracing the Serpentine Line (Yale Publications in the History of Art)
Ingres's Eroticized Bodies Retracing the Serpentine Line - Yale Publications in the History of Art Author:Carol Ockman This provocative book-the first full-length feminist and sociohistorical study of Ingres`s art-explores the meanings behind the fluid, distorted, and sensualized bodies that populate his work. Ockman identifies a disturbing equation between the female body and deformity in neoclassical and modernist aesthetics. She extends historical analysis ... more »to contemporary debates about representations of the body, concluding that women artists today have appropriated the pleasure and horror evoked by Ingres`s eroticized bodies for their own ends.« less