Author : Howard Schatz
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780060195526
From a master photographer celebrated for his innovative photographs of the human body comes his most stunning exposition year, destined to become the classic body book of all time. Includes graphic photos of nude studies. A gallery exhibition of Schatz's photography is scheduled for January, 2001, in New York City and Los Angeles.
Author : Deirdre Robinson
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1998-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780831741488
Author : Thomas Kren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 160606584X
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.
Author : Rosie Haine
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781849767842
This beautiful and brilliant debut picture book from Rosie Haine celebrates all bodies in every colour, shape and size you can imagine! All bodies are brilliant bodies, no matter what they look like. They will change as you get older, some things will change quicker than others, some might not change at all! Everyone has a bum. Nipples are normal. It isn't rude to be nude!
Author : Richard Leppert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 042996465X
The 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.
Author : Ruth Barcan
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Drawing on a wealth of examples, the author addresses a topic that has been largely ignored within cultural studies, despite its ability to shock, titillate or entertain. 'Nudity' is a blend of meaningful minutiae and big philosophical questions about the most unnatural state of nature in the modern West.
Author : Nicholas Chare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000480631
This 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.
Author : Kathy Stinson
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1773214748
Bodies, bodies! Big and small, short and tall, young and old—Every BODY is different! The Bare Naked Book has been a beloved fixture in libraries, classrooms, and at-home story times since its original publication in 1986. Now, this revised edition is ready to meet a new generation of readers. The text has been updated to reflect current understandings of gender and inclusion, which are also showcased in the brand-new, vibrant illustrations by Melissa Cho. Featuring a note from the author explaining the history of the book and the importance of this updated edition, readers will delight in this celebration of all kinds of bodies.
Author : Aysegül Savas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593330536
A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and "gentle, mysterious and profound” (Marina Abramović) novel about a woman who has come undone. A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio. In their meetings on the stairs, in the studio, at the corner café, the kitchen at dawn, Agnes tells stories of her youth, her family, her marriage, and ideas for her art - which is always just about to be created. As the months pass, it becomes clear that Agnes might not have a place to return to. The student is increasingly aware of Agnes's disintegration. Her stories are frenetic; her art scattered and unfinished, white paint on a white canvas. What emerges is the menacing sense that every life is always at the edge of disaster, no matter its seeming stability. Alongside the research into human figures, the student is learning, from a cool distance, about the narrow divide between happiness and resentment, creativity and madness, contentment and chaos. White on White is a sharp exploration of empathy and cruelty, and the stunning discovery of what it means to be truly vulnerable, and laid bare.
Author : Flaminio Gualdoni
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788861309524
From the classical ideal to contemporary icons, the male body is a symbol of perfection in art. This pocket-size volume, which offers a fascinating visual survey of the nude, features nearly sixty paintings, sculptures, and photographs spanning classic to contemporary art.
