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EROTIC AMBIGUITIES
Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic.
Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have recon-
ceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over
the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to dismantle
the exclusive, classical ideal enshrined in the figure of the nude, and how they
have broadened the scope of the ideal to include differences of race, ethnicity,
sexuality and disability as well as gender.
McDonald discusses the work of a wide range of women artists, including
Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, Mary Duffy, Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffatt, Pat
Brassington and Sally Smart. She traces the shift in feminist art practices from
the early challenge to patriarchal representations of the female nude to contem-
porary, ‘postfeminist’ practices, influenced by theories of performativity, queer
theory and postcoloniality. McDonald argues that feminist efforts to develop
a more positive representation of the female body need to be reconsidered,
in the face of the resistant ambiguities and hybrid complexities of visual art in
the late 1990s.
Helen McDonald is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Fine Arts, Classical
Studies and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne.
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EROTIC
AMBIGUITIES
The female nude in art
Helen McDonald
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London and New York
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First published 2001
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.
Disclaimer: For copyright reasons, some images in the original version of this
book are not available for inclusion in the eBook.
© 2001 Helen McDonald
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or repro-
duced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other
means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and
recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
McDonald, Helen, 1949–
Erotic ambiguities : the female nude in art /
Helen McDonald.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Female nude in art. 2. Feminism in art. 3. Gender
identity in art. 4. Women artists––Psychology. I. Title.
N7573 .M39 2000
704.9
424––dc21 00–032184
ISBN 0–415–17098–2 (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–17099–0 (pbk)
ISBN 0-203-44870-7 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-75694-0 (Glassbook Format)
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