Scholar Peter Gay talks about "Exposed: The Victorian Nu" at the Brooklyn Mm of Art.
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Peter Gaywas an Amerin historian, tor and thor. Gay received the Amerin Historil Associatn'sAward for Scholarly Distctn 2004.
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Gay's revisnist visn of the Victorians is nfirmed by an art show that origated at the Tate Mm London, and is currently showg at the Brooklyn Mm of Art. Gay argued this same pot more amilly 1984 when he wrote "Edutn of the Sens, " the first volume of his Victorian saga, lled "The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Frd. Not that Gay had anythg to do wh curatg the Brooklyn show.
Rather than study what historians said about the Victorians, Gay went to the origal material tobgraphi, medil reports, letters and diari. "It was not hypocrisy or pdishns, but a highly veloped sense of privacy, " Gay says. "Give the work a name om mythology or ancient history, " explas Gay.
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Says Gay, "In the exhib is a py of a famo statue by Hiram Powers (1805-60) lled 'The Greek Slave. " Gay found a newspaper engravg (the Victorian equivalent of a news photo) that showed men, women and children lookg at the Greek slave.
"Nowadays, the Victorian distancg of nu sounds que ridiculo, " says Gay, fendg the Victorian "nu history" athetics. Gay go on to expla that although Victorian women were not necsarily sexually savvy, they were well versed most other blogil aspects of the human body.
"Rk is a wonrful story, " says Gay.