The Naked Nude - Rilegato

Borzello, Frances

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ISBN 10: 0500238928 ISBN 13: 9780500238929

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2012

Riassunto

The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries avictory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless, its great successwas to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taintof sexuality, eroticism, or imperfection. Here Frances Borzello contraststhe civilized, perfected artistic nude of Kenneth Clark’s classic, The Nude:A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with today’s depictions: raw, uncomfortable,disturbing. Grittier and more subtle, the new nude—both male and female—confronts us with the hidden issues and contradictions of the body andour relationship to it.Borzello’s story of the nude begins with a tale of life, death, and resurrection,exploring how and why the nude has survived and flourished inan art world that prematurely announced its demise. Subsequent chapterstake a thematic approach, exploring the nude in painting, portraiture,sculpture, performance, and body art; in the work of female artists; andin extreme and graphic expressions that intentionally push the boundariesof both art and our comfort zone.

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The Naked Nude offers a fascinating, often humorous overview of our obsession with the naked body, and benefits from many wonderful colour reproductions. --Telegraph Online

Frances Borzello has produced a thoughtful, highly intelligent book, tracking the newly frank, newly naked nude. It is highly readable. --RA Magazine

Borzello brilliantly updates the evasively genteel distinction between naked and nude made by Kenneth Clark in 1956 ... Borzello's illustrations are titillating, embarrassing and sometimes outright disgusting: here we find art holding a mirror up to our troublesome human nature. --The Observer

Product Description

Book by Borzello Frances

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0500238928
• ISBN 13: 9780500238929
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192