1. Renoir's Great Bathers
Bathing as Practice, Bathing as Representation

2. Manet's Le Bain
The Dejeuner and the Death of the Heroic Landscape

3. The Man in the Bathtub
Picasso's Le Meutre and the Gender of Bathing

4. Monet's Hotel des Roches Noires
Anxiety and Perspective at the Seashore

5. Real Beauty
The Body in Realism

6. More Beautiful than a Beautiful Thing
The Body, Old Age, Ruin, and Death

Notes

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Index

Linda Nochlin is Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Her many books include the 1972 classic Realism.