<p>Presents examples of how artists, such as Cezanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, perceived prostitutes in nineteenth-century France</p>

Painted Love: Prostitution and French Art of the Impressionist Era

Arts & Photography

Clayson, Hollis

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life. This is a reprint of the book first published by Yale University Press in 1991.

Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (Texts & Documents)

Getty Research Institute

Taking a fresh approach to art, this guide chronicles the past 800 years of Western art and explores everything from religious painting and portraiture to landscapes and abstract art. Meant to enhance one's understanding and appreciation of this rich and rewarding subject, all the famous artists, movements, and themes are included, as well as timelines that show the historical significance of each work. Con un enfoque nuevo del arte occidental, esta guía reúne un gran numero de pinturas de los últimos 800 años, desde pinturas religiosas hasta el arte abstracto. Escrito para transformar la comprensión de la historia del arte, incluye todos los artistas famosos, los movimientos, los temas, y cuadros cronológicos que muestran la importancia histórica de cada obra.

Entender la pintura: Análisis y explicación de los temas de las obras (Spanish Edition)

Sturgis, Alexander

Blume

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