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The Bathers by Cézanne and Renoir: Modernism and the Nude
25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 412
The program is shot in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and deals with the nude bathers that Renoir and Cézanne painted in the 1870s. It adopts a feminist angle in trying to understand why the nude remains an important subject in the modern period. Cézanne and Renoir approach the nude very differently. While Renoir's nudes conform to stereotypical images of woman as fertile, fecund and consumable, Cézanne seems to offer a more complex reading. His nudes are not conventionally feminine; they resist the predominantly male gaze. Despite this, Tamar Garb argues that Cézanne is locked into the same pictorial tradition that produced Renoir's nudes.
Credits -
Director
GD Jayalakshmi
Presenter
Tamar Garb
Open University/BBC
