Male trouble : a crisis in representation

Author

Solomon-Godeau, Abigail

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art history. 1993, Num. 2, Vol. 16, 286-312, 19 ill.

ISSN

0141-6790

Abstract (en)

Identifies a 30-year period, between the Revolution and the July Monarchy, in the course of which the heroic male nude was gradually displaced by the female nude in French painting, and argues that the ideal, androgynous, homosocial images of masculine beauty produced by David, Girodet, Ingres, and others in the early Neo-classical period indicate a crisis in the representation of the male nude that reflects the crisis in post-revolutionary masculinity.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- France
• Gender (sex)
• Painting
• France
• 1700-1900
• Nude
• Men
• Iconography
• David, Jacques-Louis, 1748-1825
• Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824
• Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, 1780-1867
• Society
• Neo-classicism
• Masculinity

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- France
• Sexe (catégorie)
• Peinture
• France
• 1700-1900
• Nu
• Hommes
• Iconographie
• David, Jacques-Louis, 1748-1825
• Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824
• Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, 1780-1867
• Société
• Néoclassicisme
• Masculinité

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00337135

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