In this clip from Art of the Western World, art historian Griselda Pollock discusses the role that female nudes play in modern art, and the feminist implications. Contrasting Mary Cassatt and Paul Gaughin, she notes how the latter typifies "sexual tourism" on the part of male artists. She offers a short, incisive, and well-illustrated commentary on factors in modernism which are too often taken for granted.
Source: Art of the Western World (U.S. version): Part 9 - A Fresh View - Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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