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Posing questions: Male models and modernity in the Belgian art world (1830-1914)
Acronym
Posing questions
Code
01D36715
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • European history
    • Gender studies
    • History of art
Keywords
Belgian art nude model male nude nineteenth-century artist's model posing
 
Project description
 

The PhD will chart the effects on male models of the rise of modern art in 19th-century Belgium, as moder-nism from the 1840s on challenged conventions precisely like those of the traditional artist’s model and of the idealized male nude. In doing so, it will unite an aesthetic, a sociological and a discursive perspective into an in-depth qualitative study.