Naked. The Nude in America
- 476pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Surveys the history of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture.
Bram Dijkstra était un professeur de littérature anglaise dont le travail explorait les images troublantes de la sexualité féminine dans la culture. Ses livres influents, tels que "Idols of Perversity" et "Evil Sisters", analysaient la personnification féminine du mal dans l'art et la littérature de la fin du XIXe siècle. Dijkstra s'est concentré sur la manière dont ces images reflètent et façonnent les angoisses et les désirs masculins. Son œuvre académique et populaire offre un aperçu fascinant des fondements psychologiques et culturels de la représentation féminine.


Surveys the history of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture.
During the 1920s and '30s and until the end of World War II, a distinctly American form of Expressionism evolved. Most of the artists in this movement, children of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe, African-Americans and other outsiders to American mainstream culture, grew up in the urban ghettoes of the East Coast or Chicago. Their art was sympathetic to the disposessed and reflected a deep concern with the lives of working people. Providing a look at this art - and the beginnings of a new movement, Abstract Expressionism, which followed it - cultural historian Bram Dijkstra offers insights into the roots of painting in modern America.