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The Victorian Nude

"In this program, Tate Britain's Alison Smith explores contractictory Victorian attitudes toward the nude in painting and sculpture"--Container.

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  • ""In this program, Tate Britain's Alison Smith explores contradictory Victorian attitudes toward the nude in painting and sculpture. Topics include attempts to charactertize the English nude, the classical nude as an expression of moral and spiritual ideals, the mystique of the artist's studio, the sensational nudes of the later Victorian years, and modern depictions of the naked human form that began to emerge around 1900. The works of William Etty, William Blake Richmond, Annie Swynnerton, Edward Burne-Jones, John William Waterhouse, Frederic Leighton, Henry Scott Tuke, William Orpen, John Singer Sargent, and others are featured."--Container."
  • ""In this program, Tate Britain's Alison Smith explores contractictory Victorian attitudes toward the nude in painting and sculpture"--Container."@en
  • "In this program, Tate Britain's Alison Smith explores contradictory Victorian attitudes toward the nude in painting and sculpture. Topics include attempts to characterize the English nude, the classical nude as an expression of moral and spiritual ideals, the mystique of the artist's studio, the sensational nudes of the later Victorian years, and modern depictions of the naked human form that began to emerge around 1900. The works of William Etty, William Blake Richmond, Annie Swynnerton, Edward Burne-Jones, John William Waterhouse, Frederic Leighton, Henry Scott Tuke, William Orpen, John Singer Sargent, and others are featured. (37 minutes)."@en
  • "The Victorians were obsessed by the nude in art. For many nineteenth- century painters and sculptors, the naked body, both male and female, was central to exotic historical fantasies and elaborate allegories of imperial power. In such contexts the classical nude could be seen as a moral and spiritual ideal. Yet inevitably the nude was also associated with sensuous indulgence and base passions. In an enlightening introduction to the subject, sumptuously filmed at Tate Britain, curator Alison Smith explores the contradictions of Victorian attitudes to the nude. She considers the aspirations of artists who sought to create a specifically English idea of the nude, the differences between paintings for public display and private enjoyment, the spectacular "sensation nudes" of the later Victorian years, and the new ways of depicting the naked human form that emerged around 1900. Central to Alison Smith's discussion are considerations of important individual works by William Etty, William Blake Richmond, Annie Swynnerton, Edward Burne-Jones, John William Waterhouse, Frederic Leighton, John Henry Tuke and William Orpen. Their sensual, vibrant paintings and sculptures remain strikingly fresh and, often, sexy. At the same time, they prompt provocative questions about desire and images of the body."@en
  • "Curator Alison Smith explores the contradictions of Victorian attitudes to the nude. Made in conjunction with an exhibition at the Tate Britain."@en
  • "Curator Alison Smith explores the contradictions of Victorian attitudes to the nude. Made in conjunction with an exhibition at the Tate Britain."
  • "Curator at Tate Britain Alison Smith explores the contradictions at the heart of the Victorian fascination with the nude in art and its associations with both spiritual ideal and sensuous indulgence."@en
  • "As the Society for the Suppression of Vice prowled 19th-century England, the educated classes were learning to celebrate the naked body. Shielded by the Protestant Reformation from the great tradition of Catholic iconography, a country with no tradition of painting nudes was flooded with European art after the Napoleonic wars. Victorians were wary of the morally suspect French nude and so sought an ideal in English literature, notably Shakespeare, Milton, and Spenser's ''Faerie Queene'' and in popular legend. This video catalog presents examples from the exhibition ''Exposed: The Victorian Nude, '' which ran at the Tate Britain in London from November 2001 through January 2002."@en
  • "In this program, Tate Britain's Alison Smith explores contradictory Victorian attitudes toward the nude in painting and sculpture. Topics include attempts to characterize the English nude, the classical nude as an expression of moral and spiritual ideals, the mystique of the artist's studio, the sensational nudes of the later Victorian years, and modern depictions of the naked human form that began to emerge around 1900. The works of William Etty, William Blake Richmond, Annie Swynnerton, Edward Burne-Jones, John William Waterhouse, Frederic Leighton, Henry Scott Tuke, William Orpen, John Singer Sargent, and others are featured."@en

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