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A fresh, fascinating appraisal that is the first study of the nude in photography as seen through the social customs, manners and taboos that shaped the art. 20 full-color and 200 black-and-white photographs.
Author : Jorge Lewinski
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Photography
ISBN :
A fresh, fascinating appraisal that is the first study of the nude in photography as seen through the social customs, manners and taboos that shaped the art. 20 full-color and 200 black-and-white photographs.
Author : Kishore Singh
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9789381217573
Exhibition of Indian artists held at Delhi Art Gallery in December 2015; photographic reproductions of their works; includes brief life sketches.
Author : Frances Borzello
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500777713
The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection. In this newly updated study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilized, sanitized, perfected nude of Kenneth Clarks classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with todays depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, depicting variously gendered bodies, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradictions that surround the body in our time. Borzello explores the role of the nude in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, looking at the work of a wide range of international artists creating contemporary nudes. Her fascinating text is complemented by a profusion of well-chosen, unusual and beautifully reproduced illustrations. The story begins with a tale of life, death and resurrection an investigation into how and why the nude has survived and flourished in an art world that prematurely announced its demise. Subsequent chapters take a thematic approach, focusing in turn on Body art and Performance art, the new perspectives of women artists, the nude in painting, portraiture and sculpture and in its most extreme and graphic expressions that intentionally push the boundaries of both art and our comfort zone. The final chapter illustrates radical developments in art and culture over the last decade, focusing in particular on artworks by women, trans artists and artists of colour. Borzello links these works to their art-historical and political predecessors, demonstrating the continually unending capacity of the nude to disrupt traditional hierarchies and gender categories in life and art.
Author : Robert Graves
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1921
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Pete Najarian
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781587903953
The Naked & The Nude is a nonfiction illustrated novel narrated by a 76-year-old painter and writer regarding the interface of his sex life and his life as an artist.
Author : Richard Leppert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,40 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 : Bram Dijkstra
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847833665
Surveys the history of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture.
Author : Louis Benjamin
Publisher : Focal Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781138457867
Nude photography can be intimidating, for the artist and the subject. Technique, creativity, and psychology all need to be considered and executed seamlessly to achieve a photographer�s desired artistic and professional result. Author Louis Benjamin has built a career by studying the intricacies of the perfect nude photography photo shoot and he has compiled what he has learned for you in this second edition of the best-selling book, The Naked and the Lens. This revised text updates and builds upon the key concepts presented in the first edition that guide photographers from finding models and planning a shoot, all the way through to post production. New material includes discussions of the latest equipment, software, web publishing options, as well as fresh and more diverse photographs and interviews.
Author : Nicholas Chare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 10,57 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 : Erwin Blumenfeld
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780500542309
One of the greatest fashion photographers of all time, Erwin Blumenfeld is also recognized as one of the most talented and profoundly erotic portrayers of the nude. He aimed to persuade his audience of the magical beauty of the female form, and to show the world that the nudes of the great master painters--from Botticelli to Ingres--could be challenged by the magical potential of the darkroom. Blumenfeld was an inspired innovator who experimented with solarizations, reticulations, negative-positive combinations, and chemical manipulations to enhance the mystery of his images. 'The Naked and the Veiled' features, in both color and duotone, many photographs never before published, as well as Blumenfeld's famous shots such as Nude under Wet Silk. The text by Yorick Blumenfeld, the photographer's son, provides unusual insights into the work and brings a greater understanding of these highly original and complex images. This book shows the full range of Blumenfeld's astounding inventiveness, from the classic to the surreal to the abstract, from 1930s Amsterdam to 1960s New York. It will interest not only those who are already familiar with Blumenfeld's fashion photographs, but anyone interested in the history of the nude in photography who wishes to see the subject treated by one of the twentieth century's undisputed masters.