Bathers, Bodies, Beauty

on painterly preoccupations with bathing, whether at the beach, in lakes and rivers, in public swimming pools, or in bathtubs. In discussions of Renoir, Manet, Cézanne, Bonnard, and Picasso, of late twentieth-century and contemporary artists Philip Pearlstein, Alice Neel, and Jenny Saville, of grotesque imagery, the concept of beauty, and the body in realism...