In The Work of Art, Anthea Callen analyzes the self-portraits, portraits of fellow artists, photographs, prints, and studio images of prominent nineteenth-century French Impressionist painters, explor
Looking at Men considers how art, medicine, and sport in the 19th century overlapped to reinforce notions of masculinity. Through a shared violence of human dissection, pugilism, and war, men in artis
The Spectacular Body explores the ways in which the human body?especially the female body?was visualized by artists in late nineteenth-century Paris. Focusing on the work of Degas, it deals with issue
After the horrifying results of the Nazi plans to create a "perfect race" by sterilizing or murdering all those they considered inferior, the science of eugenics fell into deep disfavor. The essays in
This book reveals how art and sex promoted the desire for the genetically perfect body. Its eight chapters demonstrate that before eugenics was stigmatized by the Holocaust and Western histories were
This elegant volume is the first to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840–1926). Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career—including his first Salon-exhibited work,
