The Female Nude

Author : Lynda Nead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134972753

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The Female Nude by Lynda Nead Pdf

Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes `art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of Western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status? The Female Nude brings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art, and by exploring the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced and maintained, renews recent debates on high culture and pornography. The Female Nude represents the first feminist survey of the most significant subject in Western art. It reveals how the female nude is now both at the centre and at the margins of high culture. At the centre, and within art historical discourse, the female nude is seen as the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the edge, it risks losing its repectability and spilling over into the obscene.

Author : Peter Adams
Publisher : Photographers' Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1861085567

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The Digital Female Nude by Peter Adams Pdf

With guidance covering the various aspects of nude photography, including approaching and interacting with models, planning locations and exploring photographic styles, this book showcases some of the author's most commanding black and white work - and some colour work too. It gives a glimpse behind the scenes of his photo shoots.

Author : Eric Jan Sluijter,Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789053568378

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Rembrandt and the Female Nude by Eric Jan Sluijter,Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Pdf

Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes—Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba—as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians. But they also elicited vehement criticism when first shown, described as against-the-grain, anticlassical—even ugly and unpleasant. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, kept close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question Eric Jan Sluijter, in Rembrandt and the Female Nude, examines Rembrandt’s paintings and etchings against the background of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands and Italy. Exploring Rembrandt’s intense dialogue with the works of predecessors and peers, Sluijter demonstrates that, more than any other artist, Rembrandt set out to incite the greatest possible empathy in the viewer, an approach that had far-reaching consequences for the moral and erotic implications of the subjects Rembrandt chose to depict. In this richly illustrated study, Sluijter presents an innovative approach to Rembrandt’s views on the art of painting, his attitude towards antiquity and Italian art of the Renaissance, his sustained rivalry with the works of other artists, his handling of the moral and erotic issues inherent in subjects with female nudes, and the nature of his artistic choices.

Author : Giovanni Civardi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782214618

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Drawing the Male Nude by Giovanni Civardi Pdf

Giovanni Civardi breaks down the complex process of drawing the male nude, from making rudimentary choices about framing, lighting and the most appropriate drawing tools, to rendering detailed and anatomically accurate artworks. Civardis own masterful drawings provide an excellent touchstone for the artist wanting to explore the depiction of the male body, and his studies of numerous poses cover all aspects of life drawing. Civardi takes a pragmatic, almost scientific, approach to teaching the subject, combining basic physics with artistic interpretation. Drawing the Male Nude also touches upon the significant anatomical differences between the male and the female form, but these are also covered in some detail in the companion to this title, Drawing the Female Nude.

Author : André De Dienes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Female nude in art
ISBN : UCSC:32106018019189

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Andre de Dienes by André De Dienes Pdf

During 1945 Andre de Dienes (1913-1985) photographed a young model named Norma Jean. His subsequent five-year working relationship with the woman who became Marilyn Monroe is the beginning of de Dienes's career in Hollywood. He photographed celebrities, and his documentary work took him from Muscle Beach in Venice to sharecroppers working the cotton fields of the deep South. But his first love in photography was the female nude, and in his lifetime he photographed and published thousands of these pictures. Selected from the archives of his estate are seventy-five of the finest images printed by the artist. Reproduced actual size these prints are a time capsule of half-century old interpretations of female beauty.

Author : Helen McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134696673

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Erotic Ambiguities by Helen McDonald Pdf

Art 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368985861

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The Curve by Anonim Pdf

Author : Giovanni Civardi
Publisher : Cassell Illustrated
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0289800900

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Drawing the Female Nude by Giovanni Civardi Pdf

“To paint, draw, or sculpt the human figure is one of the most demanding of artistic problems.... Explores the artistic possibilities and particular problems of female bodies.”—Library Journal.

Author : Lynda Nead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:704450989

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The Female Nude by Lynda Nead Pdf

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781509824953

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Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely political, exploring memory, gender, childhood and place. Within it are also some of her best-known poems, including 'Education for Leisure', as well as, of course, the poem from which the collection takes its title. First published in 1985 to widespread critical acclaim, Standing Female Nude is a work of startling originality and the starting point of the Poet Laureate's dazzling poetic career.

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789620245

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The Reclining Nude by Emma Wilson Pdf

This book, a sensuous evocation of images of the reclining nude, claims a female-identified pleasure in looking. Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin are re-imagining images of female beauty, display, (auto)eroticism, and intimacy. The reclining nude is compelling, for female-identified artists in the ethically adventurous, politically complex feminist issues it engages.

Author : Paul Moore
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481222813

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The Classic Female Nude by Paul Moore Pdf

Approximately 60 pages with 55 sepia toned images. This work is ENTIRELY pictorial. Contains artistic nudity - For ADULTS ONLY This work is a study of the female nude in a classical form. It is ideal for those wishing to expand their knowledge of an artistic presentation of the female nude. For those who are interested in such things, all the images in this book were created with a Mamiya RB67 camera and 50, 90, and 127MM lenses. All images were shot using Ilford Delta iso 3200 film to enhance the grain and precessed in D-76 developer. The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from his local newspaper to write about and photograph sports events at the Arizona high school where he was a junior. After a stint in the service, he had an opportunity to study photography and printing techniques with Bernard Hoffman, a true gentleman and scholar, and one of the earliest staff photographers for Life Magazine. Since that time he has had thousands of photographs and hundreds of articles published by more than 60 national and international periodicals. He was also a contributing editor for one of them for more than ten years. Topics ran the gamut from professional sports, medicine, archeology, and photography to science. After twenty years away from Arizona he returned in 1985 and it has been the base from which all his photographic excursions are launched. Along with many others he has embraced digital photography but can still be seen, from time to time, peering through the ground glass of a large format camera, hoisting a large medium format 6x7, or indeed still using a 35mm film camera. The photographer currently has fine art photography on exhibit at The Center for Fine Arts in Globe, Arizona, and is currently represented by more than ten stock photo agencies where he has more than 13,000 photographs available for commercial use.

Author : Thomas Kren,Jill Burke,Stephen J. Campbell
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065846

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The Renaissance Nude by Thomas Kren,Jill Burke,Stephen J. Campbell Pdf

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 : Flaminio Gualdoni,Eileen Romano
Publisher : Skira - Berenice
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 8861305393

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Female Nude by Flaminio Gualdoni,Eileen Romano Pdf

The representation of the female body has inspired some of the finest works in art history. This volume, which aims to offer a fascinating visual survey of the nude, features nearly fifty paintings and sculptures—often celebrated masterpieces—spanning from classic to contemporary art.

Author : Flaminio Gualdoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 8857213528

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The History of the Nude by Flaminio Gualdoni Pdf

A richly illustrated and extremely enjoyable reference book on the historical evolution of the nude. From the Paleolithic "great mothers" to the Greek athletes, from the Venus of Urbino by Titian to Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, from the Odalisque by Boucher to those by Ingres, to the Amazons of Helmut Newton and the desolate, lifeless bodies of Andres Serrano, the nude is the theme of artistic representation par excellence. The nude body as the incarnation of perfect beauty and the suspicions concerning its sensuality imposed by Christian culture; the renewed triumph of ancient beauty in the Renaissance and the study of anatomy; the visual licentiousness of the eighteenth century and the photographic nude; ideal beauty, eroticism, pornography; the nude also as representation of the ugly and its flaunted truthfulness in the art of the twentieth century; the nude that itself becomes a work of art in the avant-garde of the post-WWII period, with performance, body art and experimental theater. These threads of the narration make for a deeply informative historical exploration of the nude in Western art, all conducted around a rich apparatus of images.