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    Bodies of Modernity explores how men's and women's bodies were represented in late 19th century France when modern gender roles were being defined. Women were seen as creatures of nature and emotion, while men embodied reason and science. Through case studies of works by Cézanne, Renoir, Seurat, Tissot, and Caillebotte as well as photographs, the book examines how these notions influenced depictions of the modern male and female form in Impressionist art. By analyzing iconic works and lesser known pieces through the lens of gender and society, Bodies of Modernity provides new interpretations of some of the best loved art from this period in a way that gets to the heart of French

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    Bodies of Modernity explores how men's and women's bodies were represented in late 19th century France when modern gender roles were being defined. Women were seen as creatures of nature and emotion, while men embodied reason and science. Through case studies of works by Cézanne, Renoir, Seurat, Tissot, and Caillebotte as well as photographs, the book examines how these notions influenced depictions of the modern male and female form in Impressionist art. By analyzing iconic works and lesser known pieces through the lens of gender and society, Bodies of Modernity provides new interpretations of some of the best loved art from this period in a way that gets to the heart of French

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    Tamar Garb

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    Bodies of Modernity explores how men's and women's bodies were represented in late 19th century France when modern gender roles were being defined. Women were seen as creatures of nature and emotion, while men embodied reason and science. Through case studies of works by Cézanne, Renoir, Seurat, Tissot, and Caillebotte as well as photographs, the book examines how these notions influenced depictions of the modern male and female form in Impressionist art. By analyzing iconic works and lesser known pieces through the lens of gender and society, Bodies of Modernity provides new interpretations of some of the best loved art from this period in a way that gets to the heart of French

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    Bodies of modernity : figure and flesh in fin-de-siècle France.


    London : Thames and Hudson, 1998.

    Summary
    Bodies of Modernity explores the ways in which men's and women's bodies are
    represented in late nineteenth-century France. Thought to be unequivocally different
    from one another, modern men and women were expected to express their sexuality
    and social positions in the clothes they wore, the poses they struck, and the behavior
    they exhibited. In a series of case studies, Bodies of Modernity looks at works by
    Cezanne, Renoir, Seurat, Tissot, and Caillebotte as well as photographs of male body
    builders to establish an image of the modern body. Well-known works such as
    Renoir's Nude in the Sunlight, Seurat's Young Woman Powdering Herself, and
    Cezanne's Large Bathers are given new interpretations, while lesser known paintings
    like Tissot's series on The Women of Paris or Caillebotte's iconoclastic Man at the Bath
    are looked at seriously for the first time. Bodies of Modernity is an original account of
    one of the best-loved periods in Western art history. By taking "figure and flesh" as its
    focus, it bypasses traditional art historical categories and style labels to provide a
    reading of the work of the Impressionists and their contemporaries that gets to the
    heart of French society of the period. 

    In late 19th-century France, women and men were seen as polar opposites: women
    were creatures of nature and emotion, while men were the embodiment of reason,
    culture and science. Employing historical, social and contextual material, this book
    documents how these notions influenced the representation of men and women in the
    work of the most important Impressionist artists of the period: Gustave Caillebotte,
    James Tissot, Georges Seurat, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Paul Cezanne. By taking
    figure painting as her focus, Tamar Garb bypasses traditional art historical accounts in
    this study of one of the best-loved periods in Western art history. Beginning with a
    discussion of Caillebotte's male figures, the book then turns to photographs produced
    to promote the male body-building movement. Tissot's "Women of Paris" series is a
    catalogue of contemporary images of modern femininity - decorative, seductive, yet
    tinged with menace. A detailed examination of Seurat's "Young Woman Powdering
    Herself" discusses this work in relation to contemporary views of the "woman at the
    toilette", while Renoir's rejection of modernity in favour of a nostalgic fantasy of
    earthy femininity is exposed as an important strain in modernist painting. Finally, the
    androgynous figures in Cezanne's late bather paintings are shown to be the least
    secure in their sexual identity. Yet even these works reveal the period's anxious and
    rigid definition of sexual difference. 

    Ch. 1. Gustave Caillebotte's Male Figures: Masculinity, Muscularity and Modernity


    Ch. 2. Modelling the Male Body: Physical Culture, Photography and the Classical Ideal
    Ch. 3. James Tissot's 'Parisienne' and the Making of the Modern Woman
    Ch. 4. Powder and Paint: Framing the Feminine in Georges Seurat's Young Woman
    Powdering Herself
    Ch. 5. Painterly Plenitude: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Fantasy of the Feminine
    Ch. 6. Paul Cezanne's The Eternal Feminine and the Erotics of Vision
    Ch. 7. Cezanne's Late Bathers: Modernism and Sexual Difference.

    Dandies. Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture. Edited by Susan Fillin-Yeh
    Published by: NYU Press

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