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A 5 page research paper arguing that women were oppressed by the reasons behind the use of nudity in Victorian art. Counter-arguments are presented, and a number of paintings are referenced, including those by Manet, Monet, Delacroix, Courbet, Liebl and Herkomer. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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a time of economic flux, and as such, their roles were at once being opened up in terms of consumerism and public participation, while at the same time they were
condemned for participating in such a public world. The reason is that women have always been viewed as possessions that could be traded like a commodity. The power
that underlies this also provides that women must accept the cultural identity assigned to them, whether that be fallen women or culturally proper women. Such power lines are evident
in Victorian art. "Education," "marriage," "domestic life," "divorce," "prostitution," "consumer," and "working women" have been used to describe the experience of women in Victorian times, and these are also the
subject of women in art of the period. All of these denote a conflict between the artists gaze and the social construct of women. Many believe that the
artist wanted to portray all of these identities regarding women. For example, Kate Flint describes how the Victorian woman was often reflected as a construct of two identities in
art. In her comparison of "the binary stereotypes of prim acolyte and randy demimondaine, Flint contrasts a conventional portrait of the second Mrs. Coventry Patmore with a stereoscopic card
of a woman reader, conventionally prim from the waist up, but with her stockinged legs arranged in the position of a side saddle rider, an image that telegraphs sexual and
intellectual dominance simultaneously" (Jadwin, 1997, p. 165). In Antonio Canovas "Cupid and Psyche" (1787-93) the woman is undraped and cupids hand rests on her breasts (Gowing, 1993, p. 742).
In Delacroixs "The Death of Sardanapalus," (1737) the women are unclothed, writhing in agony and held back from Sardanpaluss bed by clothed servants (Gowing, p. 747). In Courbets "The
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