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| Spectacular Body: Science, Method, and Meaning in the Work of Degas | | | Author: | Anthea Callen | | ISBN: | 0300054432 | | Format: | Handover | | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | |  |  |  | | | | | | | Book Review | | | |
Book Description
In this handsome book, Anthea Callen deals with issues of sexuality, gender, and visual representation to illuminate the underlying meanings of Degas`s depictions of women in his series of bathers, dancers, and prostitutes. She argues that the gender politics of Degas` culture made it inevitable that he represent masculine desire-and anxieties about masculine identity evoked by such desire-through an apparently detached masculine scrutiny of the female body.
Spectacular Body: Science, Method, and Meaning in the Work of Degas FROM THE PUBLISHER In this handsome book, Anthea Callen deals with issues of sexuality, gender, and visual representation to illuminate the underlying meanings of Degas's depictions of women in his series of bathers, dancers, and prostitutes. She argues that the gender politics of Degas' culture made it inevitable that he represent masculine desire-and anxieties about masculine identity evoked by such desire-through an apparently detached masculine scrutiny of the female body.
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