11. Octavius Oakley, A Student of Beauty

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TitleA Student of Beauty

Creator nameOakley, Octavius

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (Modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1861

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

LocationPrivate Collection

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsWatercolor painting, BritishFeminine beauty (Aesthetics) in artArtists' studios in art

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1. Reading the Body: Historiography and the Case of the Female Nude

Marcia Pointon

Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

In the succeeding chapters of this book I shall be undertaking a series of close analyses of particular images and groups of images of the body. In this first chapter I shall map historiographic and theoretical issues within which the nude in Western art poses itself as problematic...

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Marcia Pointon

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-34

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Chapter subject tags:Female nude in artObjectification (Social psychology)Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983Berger, JohnArtists' models

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