The Face of the Nude
The Face of the Nude

Author: John Brophy

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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"Written by the renowned author, art collector and critic John Brophy, this book provides a penetrating, comparative study of the nude in Western art, and the way artists throughout history have depicted the face in relation to the naked human body. In over 23,000 words, Mr. Brophy explores the ever-changing relationship between the nude and the portrayal of faces in each period, from the Archaic and Classical epochs through the Renaissance, from the Baroque and Rococo periods to the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists and beyond." -- From jacket flap.

The Naked Face
The Naked Face

Author: Sidney Sheldon

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-06-22

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0062015591

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Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life. If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself... Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already been killed. Is one of the doctor's patients responsible? Someone overwhelmed by his problems? A neurotic driven by compulsion? A madman? Before the murderer strikes again, Judd must strip away the mask of innocence the criminal wears, uncover the inner emotions, fears, and desires, to expose . . .

Tasteful Nudes
Tasteful Nudes

Author: Dave Hill

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1250002036

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A hilarious book of essays from comedian, "This American Life" contributor, and rock god Hill. His collection of mind-blowing essays recollect real life experiences of a grown man with red-hot action, startling emotion, and borderline futuristic insights.

Nude Awakening
Nude Awakening

Author: Victor L. Martin

Publisher: Wahida Clark Presents Publishing, LLC

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9781944992125

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After pulling a fifteen year bid, thirty-three year old Trevon is out to get back on his feet. His mind-set isn't focused on the quick come up by reverting back to the streets. He has his mind set on using his body and handsome looks to tap into the porn industry and earn a living as an adult film actor. Trevon will learn quickly how much times have changed since his decade and a half incarceration. His life will spin out of balance due to drama that he can't control. Sex, lies and pure lust will overwhelm him until he is forced to face reality, or face a Nude Awakening.

Books of Nudes
Books of Nudes

Author: Alessandro Bertolotti

Publisher:

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Bertolotti explores the history of nude photography, from the first academic snapshots all the way to the most audacious avant-gardists. Organized chrono-thematically and accompanied by socio-cultural analysis, this book includes the works by Germaine Krull, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Jean-Loup Sieff.

The Renaissance Nude
The Renaissance Nude

Author: Thomas Kren

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 160606584X

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A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.

Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos
Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos

Author: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1498500471

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At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more frequent, more visible, and more dominant in connection with aesthetic presentations of women over the past thirty years. No longer restricted to biker and sailor culture, tattoos have been sanctioned by the mainstream of liberal societies. Nudity has become more visible than ever on European beaches or on the internet. The increased use of the veil by women in Muslim and non-Muslim countries has developed in parallel with the aforementioned phenomena and is just as striking. Through the means of conceptual analysis, Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics reveals that these three phenomena can be both private and public, humiliating and empowering, and backward and progressive. This unorthodox approach is traced by the three’s similar social and psychological patterns, and by doing so, Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos hopes to sketch the image of a woman who is not only sexually emancipated and confident, but also more and more aware of her cultural heritage.

John Hedgecoe's Nude and Portrait Photography
John Hedgecoe's Nude and Portrait Photography

Author: John Hedgecoe

Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780671508920

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A guide to photographing the human body includes discussions of lighting, lenses, backgrounds, camera angles, and special effects

The Plot
The Plot

Author: Irving Wallace

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 1177

ISBN-13:

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If you were in a position of authority and these five came to you at the life-and-death Summit Conference in Paris with the incredible details of The Plot would you believe any one of them? Matt Brennan—once a trusted member of the State Department until his life was shattered by accusations of treason … Medora Hart—young, ravishing, beautiful, whose involvement in a Profumo-like scandal had all but toppled an English government … Jay Thomas Doyle—once a renowned and respected columnist, now struggling desperately to recapture his lost fame by a most dangerous expos? … Hazel Smith—an embittered American foreign correspondent and the mistress of a man high up in the inner circles of the Kremlin … Emmett A. Earnshaw—an ex-President of the United States, fighting an all but hopeless battle against a ruthless German munitions tycoon to retain an honorable place in history …

The Victorian Nude
The Victorian Nude

Author: Alison Smith

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780719044038

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Smith reveals how images of the nude were used at all levels of Victorian culture, from prestigious high-art paintings through to photographs and popular entertainments; and discusses the many views as to whether these were legitimate forms of representation or, in fact, pornography and an incitement to unregulated sexual activity.