Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and index.
Renoir's Great bathers : bathing as practice, bathing as representation -- Manet's Le bain : the Déjeuner and the death of the heroic landscape -- The man in the bathtub : Picasso's Le meutre and the gender of bathing -- Monet's Hôtel des roches noires : anxiety and perspective at the seashore -- Real beauty : the body in realism -- More beautiful than a beautiful thing : the body, old age, ruin, and death