The Reclining Nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin

by Emma Wilson

Book Overview

The figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filmmakers Agn?s Varda and Catherine Breillat, and American photographer working in Paris, Nan Goldin, return to the paintings of Titian, Vel?zquez, Goya, Courbet, and others, re-imagining, and re-purposing, their images of female beauty, display, (auto)eroticism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789620082
• ISBN13: 9781789620085
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"