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  2. Women artists - Wikipedia

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    Women artists in this period began to change the way women were depicted in art. Many of the women working as artists in the Baroque era were not able to train from nude models, who were always male, but they were very familiar with the female body. Women such as Elisabetta Sirani created images of women as conscious beings rather than detached ...

  3. Hannah Wilke - Wikipedia

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    Wilke first gained renown with her "vulval" terra-cotta sculptures in the 1960s. [15]Her sculptures, first exhibited in New York in the late 1960s, are often mentioned as some of the first explicit vaginal imagery arising from the women's liberation movement, [15] and they became her signature form which she made in various media, colors and sizes, including large floor installations ...

  4. Nude (art) - Wikipedia

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    For Lynda Nead, the female nude is a matter of containing sexuality; in the case of the classical art history view represented by Kenneth Clark, this is about idealization and de-emphasis of overt sexuality, while the modern view recognizes that the human body is messy, unbounded, and problematical. [41]

  5. Lynda Nead - Wikipedia

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    Art Journal also notes how Nead challenges the idea that women were "invisible" in Victorian England. [12] Within her art history book, ‘the female nude: art, obscenity and sexuality, Nead explored female nudity within art and how this is associated with modern-day concepts of female body image. [13]

  6. Depictions of nudity - Wikipedia

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    Nudity in art—painting, sculpture, and more recently photography—has generally reflected social standards of the time in aesthetics and modesty/morality. At all times in human history, the human body has been one of the principal subjects for artists. It has been represented in paintings and statues since prehistory.

  7. History of the nude in art - Wikipedia

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    In the 19th century, the female nude abounds more than ever—especially in the second half of the century—more than in any other period in the history of art. However, the female role changes to become a mere object of sexual desire, in a process of dehumanization of the female figure, subjected to the dictates of a predominantly macho society.

  8. R&R With a Side of Art? Houston's New Hotel Saint ... - AOL

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    In 1987 philanthropists Dominique and John de Menil opened their vast art collection, which includes pieces by René Magritte, Henri Matisse, and Mark Rothko, with a museum designed by Renzo Piano ...

  9. Alvia Wardlaw - Wikipedia

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    Alvia J. Wardlaw (born November 5, 1947) is an American art scholar, and one of the country's top experts on African-American art. [1] She is Curator and Director of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, an institution central to the development of art by African Americans in Houston.