Naselli describes seeing Koons’ take on a classic female nude bath scene, writing, “t is not as if I ever liked the piece, but I didn’t quite have the language to reject it either.” That is, until she saw it again with fresh eyes after reading Nochlin. Writer Mara Naselli recently described how her experience viewing Woman in Tub by Jeff Koons was transformed by having read Nochlin. A question like the following, for instance, is still pressing: “How are women artists positioned in relation to an erotic imagery created out of male needs and desires and enacted on the symbolic terrain of woman’s body?” This is a question that viewers still need to grapple with at any major art museum, so that Nochlin’s analysis of the female form in art remains relevant nearly fifty years later. Nochlin’s analysis of the female form in art remains relevant nearly fifty years later.Īnd although Chadwick’s review of Nochlin’s work is from 1991, the questions she outlines are still relevant.
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