Linda Nochlin on The Body (Pocket Perspectives)

Linda Nochlin

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New in the Pocket Perspectives series, Linda Nochlin's exploration of the ways in which fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world

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Overview

In this classic essay, renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world. The work of an original thinker at the height of her powers, it remains a thought-provoking and compelling read.

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Book Details

Format: Hardback

Size: 18.0 x 11.6 cm

Extent: 88 pp

Illustrations: 37

Publication date: 2 May 2024

ISBN: 9780500027257

About the Author

Linda Nochlin (1931–2017) was Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. She wrote extensively on issues of gender in art history and on 19th-century Realism. Her numerous publications include Women, Art and Power, Representing Women and Courbet, as well as the pioneering essay from 1971: ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’