ch. 4. The male nude : identity and denial
Where to look
Saintly looks
Christ/man
Claims and contradictions
Body reversal?
Genital confrontation
The bath
Measured difference : mattes of black and white
The evil other
Studio
Turning the tables (2)
Anti-narcissism and zones of (dis)pleasure
ch. 5. Afterword
The matter of looking
Naked transgression
The body and photography
Erotics?
Bathed in desire
Notes
Works cited
Index.
The nude : the cultural rhetoric of the body in the art of Western modernity by Richard D. Leppert. ISBN 9780813343501. Published by Westview Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.