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The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of Western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status? The Female Nude brings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art, and by exploring the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body ..... The Nude: Ideal and Reality - Painting and Sculpture Paperback (september 2004) Publisher: Skira Editore Reclining Nude Sensuous, voluptuous, provocative - the female form has inspired artists for centuries, making it perhaps the most popular subject in the history of painting. Since Giogione's "Sleeping Venus", the first notable female nude in Western painting, artists have focused on the infinite possibilities of the representation of the female body. Featuring full-page illustrations of masterpieces of the genre - from Titian's "Venus of Urbino" to Manet's "Olympia", from Invres' "Large Odalisque" to Lucian Freud's "Naked Girl" - this volume provides a tour of Western society's ever-changing visions of beauty and repose. Exposed: The Victorian Nude The apogee of High Culture, or an assault on public morality? The representation of the nude figure was one of the most contraversial issues in Victorian art. This publication surveys the full range of Victorian representations of the nude, both male and female concentrating on painting, sculpture and drawing, but also exploring the artistic depiction of the "naked" body in other media, both "high" and "low", including photography, popular illustration, advertizing imagery and caricature, foregrounding issues of morality, sexuality and desire that remain relevant in the 21st century. Naked Men, Too: Liberating the Male Nude, 1950-2000 Naked Men, Too, exposes the breakthrough nude male photography and art that changed the perception of male beauty. Focusing on the work of influential photographers such as George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Harriet Leibowitz, and Bruce Weber, author David Leddick chronicles the visual revolution that paralleled social and sexual liberation since the late 1950s. With brief biographies of the models, including early renegades like Yves St. Laurent, Joe Dallesandro, Rupert Everett and more, this provocative book features reproductions of the original photos alongside portraits of the models today. This dynamic history of male nudity in art and advertising is for all audiences, gay and straight John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes Hardcover (May 1999) Publisher: Universe Publishing The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality and Art Controversy surrounding nudity in art is as strong now as it was during the 19th century. Selected Victorian paintings of the nude are still hidden from public view. In this work, the author unravels the background to this situation and reveals the paradox of the nude as an object of public moral outrage. The text reveals how images of the nude were used at all levels of Victorian culture, from high-art paintings to photographs and popular entertainments. It questions whether these were a valid form of representation or, in fact, pornography. The nude was considered to be the most prestigious and pure form of art, whilst at the same time was vilified by the state because of its incitement to unregulated sexual activity. The book includes discussion on the work of Lord Leighton, Burne-Jones, Rosetti, Millais, Watts, Waterhouse, Henrietta Rae and Anna Lea Merritt. Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to dismantle the exclusive, classical ideal enshrined in the figure of the nude, and how they have broadened the scope of the ideal to include differences of race, ethnicity, sexuality and disability as well as gender The Complete Reprint of "Physique Pictorial": 1951-1990 (Photo Books S.) A contemporary document from the America of the Fifties. Review: So many gorgeous boys! What happened to them? Who they really were, what have they become? How many of them (plenty, I suppose) wound up in Vietnam? How many of them became an actor (a common wish)? One can't help wondering. This is a feast for the eyes and a puzzle for the soul. Anatomy for the Artist This book explains the guidelines for creating an accurate representation of the nude figure. All anatomical explanations are illustrated clearly, and every concept is demonstrated using step-by-step sequences. Does an artist need to learn scientific anatomy? An understanding of anatomy is not enough on its own to create beautiful illustrations, but it is crucial to an artist's work. Anatomy is now one of the few links between art and science: the nude is still the most effective way of affirming faith in the beauty of the human body. Paintings and sculptures through the centuries from Greek and Roman times show how art can find nourishment in the science of anatomy. A Body A Protean Voyage Through, Inside, Around, and all Over the Human Body; Featured in over sixty-five prestigious institutions world-wide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Met and the MoMA in New York, the National Gallery in Edinburgh and the Pompidou Centre in Paris, this collection is now finally available in a gorgeous printed format. For thirty-three years, the acclaimed painter, editor and art critic John Coplans has photographed his body nude. Natural Beauty: Farber Nudes A collection of sensitive, sensual and often abstract nudes by award-winning photographer, Robert Farber Nudes A series of 37 black-and-white photographs ranging from the 1930s to the 1990s. The titles and the two-page introduction by Carlos Fuentes are in both the original Spanish and English translation. A bibliography and list of exhibitions is also included for Alvarez. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). Nude Sculpture: 5, 000 Years A visual survey of nude sculpture throughout the ages, containing 200 specially taken photographs. The book seeks to offer a glimpse into the creative process, as well as the qualities of presence, texture and detail that give the finest sculpture its grace and majesty. 1000 Nudes (Klotz S.) Offers a cross-section of the history of nude photography, ranging from the earliest nude daguerrotypes, via ethnographic nude photographs, to experimental nude photography. All the pictures shown are from the Uwe Scheid Collection, one of the largest collections of erotic photography in the world. In Praise of the Backside (Temptation Collection) Beyond our cultural and religious upbringings, women and men pursue their fantasies, which the author tries to unravel with the rigour of a scientist for the pleasure of our eyes. Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Texts, Images This exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art and literature starts from an assumption that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago: that the 'natural' phenomena of sex, gender and subjectivity are constructed rather than essentially biological or fixed. The essays rise to the challenge of producing a new post-Foucaultian history of gender and sexuality. All of them have been influenced by feminism, and several deal with women not just as objects of representation, but as subjects and authors in their own right. Venus at her Mirror: Velazquez and the Art of Nude Painting Prater begins by offering a fresh and thoroughly detailed examination of Velazquez’s masterpiece. He delves into its numerous levels of meaning as well as its impact on the nude paintings of its day. He also looks at the painting’s fascinating history, including its attempted devastation by a suffragette in 1919. Velazquez’s self-admiring Venus is compared to her depictions in other well-known works by earlier artists, including da Vinci, Giorgione, and Titian, as well as in works by later artists such as Manet and Cabanel, and into the modern world of advertising. These comparisons provoke intriguing perspectives on the evolution of eroticism, feminism, and Christianity in art, and offer a renewed understanding of the influence one artist and one work can have on generations that follow. Breasts in Art: Series; Bodies in Art (Bodies in Art) Hardcover (November 2000) Publisher: MQ Publications The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870-1910 Dawkins examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the fine-art nude, print culture and censorship, Heather Dawkins explores how artists, art critics, politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges evaluated the nude. She shows how spectatorship of the nude was refracted through the ideals of art, femininity, republican liberty, and public decency. An art form made for and by men, the nude was rarely the subject of serious engagement on the part of women. A few, nevertheless, attempted to take up the issues and challenges of the nude. Dawkins investigates in detail how these women reshaped the genre of the nude and its spectatorship in order for it to accommodate their own experience and subjectivity. Nudes In this collection, Australian photographer Andreas Bitesnich explores the sculptural harmony of the nude. Ideal and Reality: The Image of the Body in 20th Century Art - From Bonnard to Warhol Presents a survey of the image of the human body in 20th century art, featuring drawings, gouaches, pastels and watercolours by 200 artists. The book reveals the various distinctive representations of the body in drawings and documents the erotic fascination with which artists have viewed their subject, evident in the works of Klimt, Rodin and Matisse. Successive phases, from post-impressionism to the contemporary scene, reflect the evolutionary process that has changed the body's image in art throughout the 20th century. Among the artists included are Cocteau, Degas, Giacometti, Hockney, Picasso and Schiele. Nude in Contemporary Art Paperback Publisher: Aldrich Museum of Contempory Art The Nude in American Painting, 1950-80 In the years following Willem de Kooning's exhibition of the Woman paintings in 1953, a younger generation of American painters turned to the subject of the nude. This study focuses on selected nudes by seven noted American painters, including Larry Rivers, Tom Wesselmann, Sylvia Sleigh and Joan Semmel and examines the complex range of issues and ideas associated with the nude in postwar American culture Battle of the Nudes Antionio del Pollaiuolo (1431-1498) was a renowned Florentine painter, sculptor, draftsman and goldsmith who was particularly admired for his dynamic and expressive portrayal of the human figure. He carried out a wide range of projects, but a relatively small number of his works survive, and he is perhaps most widely known for his magnificent engraving, "Battle of the Nudes". The Cleveland Museum of Art's unique first state of the "Battle of the Nudes" has long been regarded as the exemplary early impression, printed before the plate began to wear and was supposedly re-engraved by another hand. All other known impressions are second states, pulled from the reworked plate. This work celebrates Antonio Pollaiuolo's famous engraving, the Renaissance masterpiece "Battle of the Nudes". Related works in other media reveal the context in which it was created. The study of early Italian engraving has long been a thorny one, dogged by lack of secure dates and documentation for most prints, as well as complicated attribution issues. Shelley Langdale re-examines Pollaiuolo's masterpiece in light of recent research and assembles crucial watermark and collection documentation. Nudes: Indexxi This volume contains nearly a thousand images presenting the nude in three blocks: woman, man and couple; and interpreting them via sensuality, glamour, the beauty of pregnancy, the portrait, the conceptual, eroticism, abstract forms of movement and the power of colour
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