The Naked Nude
$43.01
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2022
Summary
The story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500296677 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500296677 |
| Author: | Frances Borzello |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 156mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
‘A thoughtful, highly intelligent book, tracking the newly frank, newly naked nude’ - RA Magazine
‘Titillating, embarrassing and sometimes outright disgusting: here we find art holding a mirror up to our troublesome human nature’ - Observer
‘A fascinating, often humorous overview of our obsession with the naked body’ - Daily Telegraph
Frances Borzello
Frances Borzello is an art historian and the author of several books, including A World of Our Own: Women as Artists, Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits and At Home: The Domestic Interior in Art, all published by Thames & Hudson.
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