Table of contents : Contents 1 Renoir’s Great Bathers: Bathing as Practice, Bathing as Representation 2 Manet’s Le Bain: The Dejeuner and the Death of the Heroic Landscape 3 The Man in the Bathtub: Picasso's Le Meutre and the Gender of Bathing 4 Monet’s Hotel des Roches Noires: Anxiety and Perspective at the Seashore 5 Real Beauty: The Body in Realism 6 More Beautiful than a Beautiful Thing: The Body, Old Age, Ruin, and Death Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index