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like new dust-jacket, new book, black cloth, note that this hardcover has a glued binding. REXER, RAISA ADAH. The fallen veil: a literary and cultural history of the photographic nude in nineteenth-century France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xii, 300pp., . Series: Material texts "This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the historical development of photographic nude images and their central role in nineteenth-century French culture. The nude photograph generated its own discourse, its own anxieties about society, obscenity, and art. No account of attitudes toward sexuality, the rights of women, the history of censorship, or the history of art in the nineteenth century can be complete without accounting for these photographs. This book necessarily involves the visual analysis of the photographs themselves and their unique patterns of representation. Its focus, however, will not be on the images as much as the narrative about nude photography that emerges out of its inscription-whether through allusion or ekphrasis-into a wide range of nineteenth-century texts, including newspapers, magazines, government records, and fiction and nonfiction books. As it turns out, nude photographs exerted a particularly marked influence on contemporary literary production. In the works of the authors in this study, the photographic nude stands at the nexus of concerns about changing modes of artistic representation, about the limits of art and obscenity and the government's role in setting those limits, and about modern industrial capitalism's effect on both art production on the one hand and sexual mores on the other. Although they worked in text rather than image, these authors felt the shock of this novel way of representing the body. The nude photograph provides a new set of terms by which to reconsider some of the century's most well-known literary figures, including Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, and the Goncourt brothers" - CONTENTS: Part I. The Second Empire -- Chapter 1 . Art, obscenity, and censorship : 1839-1870 -- Chapter 2 . The judgment of Phryne, or, the model's meaning -- Chapter 3 . Baudelaire's bodies -- Chapter 4 . Manette Salomon and anti- modernity -- Part II. The Third Republic -- Chapter 5 . The rise of an international industry : 1870-1900 -- Chapter 6 . The dangerous streets -- Chapter 7 . Nana in the nude -- Chapter 8 . Maizeroy and the feminist photo-novel -- Conclusion. ISBN 9780812252866.…

like new dust-jacket, new book, black cloth, note that this hardcover has a glued binding. REXER, RAISA ADAH. The fallen veil: a literary and cultural history of the photographic nude in nineteenth-century France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xii, 300pp., . Series: Material texts "This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the historical development of photographic nude images and their central role in nineteenth-century French culture. The nude photograph generated its own discourse, its own anxieties about society, obscenity, and art. No account of attitudes toward sexuality, the rights of women, the history of censorship, or the history of art in the nineteenth century can be complete without accounting for these photographs. This book necessarily involves the visual analysis of the photographs themselves and their unique patterns of representation. Its focus, however, will not be on the images as much as the narrative about nude photography that emerges out of its inscription-whether through allusion or ekphrasis-into a wide range of nineteenth-century texts, including newspapers, magazines, government records, and fiction and nonfiction books. As it turns out, nude photographs exerted a particularly marked influence on contemporary literary production. In the works of the authors in this study, the photographic nude stands at the nexus of concerns about changing modes of artistic representation, about the limits of art and obscenity and the government's role in setting those limits, and about modern industrial capitalism's effect on both art production on the one hand and sexual mores on the other. Although they worked in text rather than image, these authors felt the shock of this novel way of representing the body. The nude photograph provides a new set of terms by which to reconsider some of the century's most well-known literary figures, including Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, and the Goncourt brothers" - CONTENTS: Part I. The Second Empire -- Chapter 1 . Art, obscenity, and censorship : 1839-1870 -- Chapter 2 . The judgment of Phryne, or, the model's meaning -- Chapter 3 . Baudelaire's bodies -- Chapter 4 . Manette Salomon and anti- modernity -- Part II. The Third Republic -- Chapter 5 . The rise of an international industry : 1870-1900 -- Chapter 6 . The dangerous streets -- Chapter 7 . Nana in the nude -- Chapter 8 . Maizeroy and the feminist photo-novel -- Conclusion. ISBN 9780812252866.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form-artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between-were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach. Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography's invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography's aspirations to high cultural status. By the end of the century, however, as production and sales expanded internationally and as photographs of nudes flooded the streets and shops, proliferation of these pictures was increasingly viewed as one of a host of social problems plaguing France. Illustrated with nearly ninety period images, The Fallen Veil offers the first full treatment of the photographic nude in the nineteenth century and considers how this history continues to influence many of the same questions we ask today about art, pornography, and the relation between the two.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form-artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between-were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach. Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography's invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography's aspirations to high cultural status. By the end of the century, however, as production and sales expanded internationally and as photographs of nudes flooded the streets and shops, proliferation of these pictures was increasingly viewed as one of a host of social problems plaguing France. Illustrated with nearly ninety period images, The Fallen Veil offers the first full treatment of the photographic nude in the nineteenth century and considers how this history continues to influence many of the same questions we ask today about art, pornography, and the relation between the two.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity and interdisciplinary investigation In its first issue on photography, this volume of Yale French Studies presents multiple avenues of interdisciplinary investigation designed to intersect and open up new areas of inquiry in the twenty-first century. These intersections push beyond traditional geographic and gender boundaries, exploring women's photography, new cultural contexts, trans orientalism, and minority and marginalized bodies. As they do so, they ask us to reconsider the way that we conceive of photography's place in the past and in our lives today.…