Art of the Nude
Author: Deirdre Robinson
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Published: 1998-02
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780831741488
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The Renaissance Nude
Author: Thomas Kren
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 160606584X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
The Nude
Author: Richard Leppert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-04
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 042996465X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author Richard Leppert relates the visual history of how the naked body intersects with the foundational characteristics of what it is to be human, measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness, delight, and desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the context of changing social and cultural realities. The bodies comprising the Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented, ecstatic or bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume amply demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose surface is written a summation of Western history: its glory but also its degradation.
Erotic Ambiguities
Author: Helen McDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-08-26
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1134696671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt 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. McDonald discusses the work of a wide range of women artists, including Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, Mary Duffy, Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffatt, Pat Brassington and Sally Smart. She traces the shift in feminist art practices from the early challenge to partriarchal representations of the female nude to contemporary, 'postfeminist' practices, influenced by theories of performativity, queer theory and postcoloniality. McDonald argues that feminist efforts to develop a more positive representation of the female body need to be reconsidered, in the face of the resistant ambiguities and hybrid complexities of visual art in the late 1990s.
Art Follows Nature
Author: Paul LeValley
Publisher:
Published: 2016-09-29
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780999267905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of the nude in the art of Egypt, India, China/Japan, Greece/Rome, Middle-East, American Indians, Africa¿plus every period of Western art from medieval to present. The first comprehensive full-color book on the topic¿also the first one written from a naturist perspective. The interdisciplinary approach pays some attention to related literature and music. 700+ illustrations. Compiled from 20 years of columns in Naturally magazine. Signed and numbered limited edition of 500. Contents and sample pages can be viewed at www.paullevalley.com.
On the Nude
Author: Nicholas Chare
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1000480631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art – the naked body. Beginning with reflections on what denuding entails and means, the volume then shifts to a consideration of body politics in the context of Black political empowerment, disability, and queer and Indigenous politics of representation. Themes including the animal nude, the male nude, and nudity in childhood are also considered. The final section examines the nude from the perspective of the artist and the artist’s model. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, gender studies, queer studies, screen studies, and trans studies.
The Last Nude
Author: Ellis Avery
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-01-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1101554185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara's most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished-and coveted-works of art. A season as the painter's muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons: Tamara is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history's darkening tide. Inspired by real events in de Lempicka's history, The Last Nude is a tour de force of historical imagination. Ellis Avery gives the reader a tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on two tangled lives. Spellbinding and provocative, this is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance.
The Artist, the Censor, and the Nude
Author: Glenn Harcourt
Publisher: Doppelhouse Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780997003420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique commentary/critique combining art history, feminism, painting and observations about the culture of censorship in Iran and the West.
Naked
Author: Bram Dijkstra
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780847833665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the history of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture.
Degas and the Nude
Author: George T. M. Shackelford
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500093627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas and the Nude is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.
