Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye [1 ed.] 9780674021167, 0674021169

To the eye of some viewers, Renoir's "Great Bathers" are the very picture of female sensuality and beauty

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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
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