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Defying convention: The female nude in Canadian painting and photography during the interwar period
Author(s) -
Smither Devon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12219
Subject(s) - painting , period (music) , photography , convention , art history , visual arts , interwar period , art , sociology , history , aesthetics , archaeology , world war ii , social science
Abstract Often censored and much debated, the nude in Canadian art has held a contentious position since the early twentieth century. The historic focus within Canadian art history on the landscape painting of the Group of Seven has meant that themes concerning the figure and the nude have largely gone unexamined. I analyze a selection of nude paintings and photographs alongside their public reception for what the female nude reveals about the development of modern art in Canada.