{"product_id":"9781526184962","title":"Painting her pleasure","description":"Author: Lauren Jimerson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526184962\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jul 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 248 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines nudes by three women: Suzanne Valadon, milie Charmy and Marie Vassilieff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking in avant-garde Paris, these artists pioneered modern body imagery, expressing female subjectivity and sexuality in paint. They experimented with the male nude, Black female nude, pregnant nude and nude self-portrait, a genre which few artists tackled until half a century later. Flouting the period's scientific discourses and social mores, they breached assumptions about 'feminine' art and unhinged expectations about the type of subject a woman could paint. They simultaneously defied prevailing academic and vanguard practices, forging new artistic methods for the representation of the body informed by an acute awareness of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContextualising their work within and against modernism, drawing parallels with later feminist artists and philosophers, this interdisciplinary book unravels the complexities of early twentieth-century gender regimes and persistent cultural stereotypes, providing an illuminating history of women, sexuality and the body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920564371614,"sku":"ING-9781526184962","price":56.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526184962.jpg?v=1782824070","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526184962","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}