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Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to dismantle the exclusive, classical ideal enshrined in the figure of the nude, and how they have... Read more
List of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Feminism, Ambiguity and the Ideal 2. Revisioning the Female Nude 3. Historical Ambiguity 4. Seeing Ambiguity 5. Gender Ambiguity 6. Making a Difference with Ambiguity 7. Turning Ambiguity Around 8. Hybrid Ambiguities Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
Biography
Helen McDonald is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne.
