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The Shock of the Nude: Manet's Olympia
(Culture Shock series)

VHS
60 minutes
1999
NX180 .S6 C85 1999 v.4

Scandal surrounded the Paris 1865 exhibition of the painting Olympia. Manet had dared to portray visual art's most universal subject, the nude, as an unidealized woman - a prostitute who stares directly at the viewer. He flouted the accepted ideas of beauty and propriety in art and outraged audiences. Although Olympia is now regarded as a masterpiece, visual artists continue to test society's conventions.

Distributed by PBS Home Video (www.pbs.org)

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