
Victorians and the Nude
Tue, May 31
|Online Meet
The Victorian Gaze: sexuality, morality and art is the topic of this new online talk by Maria. She'll be looking the difference between the naked and the nude and how photography changed it all! more information below


Time & Location
May 31, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMT+1
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About the Event
The degree of nudity tolerated in society vary according to culture. In the Victorian context: Illicit photographic images, “academic” oil studies and large paintings where all know to have been titled nude. There was a fundamental distinction between the nude and the naked. The nude was invariably edited: genitalia hair and body hair were eliminated. Drapes
were often added. The female nude had to be presented doing something “appropriate”, but had to be shown active. Photography’s emergence in the Victorian era paved the way for the social protocols to change; there was now an easy, accessible way for a woman to gaze upon a man without it being shameful.
(Photograph used: Hylas and the Nymphs, by John William Waterhouse, Manchester City Galleries. NB Pre-Raphaelite artist William Waterhouse's “Victorian Nudes” are today considered a sort of “soft-pornographic”art).
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