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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 757.4094409034 EAN: 9780892367290 ISBN: 0892367296 Label: Getty Publications Manufacturer: Getty Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: October 30, 2003 Publisher: Getty Publications Studio: Getty Publications Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 Cezanne, 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The thinking is top notchWe do not have a very moral society at the moment, but the way an art critic can pick a theme that allows a tremendous amount of humor and social commentary to carry a reader through times that might make our future much more diverse if we can ever get our minds off the kind of economic crash that is our character as well as our fate at this late date astounds me. Rating: - Terrific InsightI always wondered why everyone was always so certain that "Olympia" was a prostitute. Now I know! This is a great book about an Era in France with some deep, dark secrets. Rating: - Highly ScholarlyI might not have purchased this book if it hadn't been included in a selection of bargain books from Yale University Press. The Acknowledgments on p. xv includes a comment on "My dissertation research in Paris." My use of the term "modern" in my reviews conforms to the sense which I observe on page 79 of this book. A cartoon at the top of the page, called "M. Manet studying beautiful nature," dated April 25, 1880, is followed by an explanation which "connects the extremity of exposed breasts ... Read More 
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