The Nude

Author : Richard Leppert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429964657

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The Nude by Richard Leppert Pdf

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 : Kenneth Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Nude in art
ISBN : OCLC:1101250790

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The Nude by Kenneth Clark Pdf

Author : Deirdre Robinson
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0831741481

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Art of the Nude by Deirdre Robinson Pdf

Author : Flaminio Gualdoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 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.

Author : M. J. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1686161247

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The Nude Detective by M. J. Parker Pdf

This is a fun, fast-paced private-detective novel with strong and interesting characters. Ethan Booker, a Vancouver based billionaire-cum-detective, isn't shy to use his wealth to help people when the legal system can't or won't. His reconnection with an old flame, Marcy, creates waves in his high performing team, particularly since she is a police detective and Ethan's team does not always follow the law. In this first book in the series, an assassin targeting Marcy pulls The Booker Detective Agency into a fight with an international crime ring. A unique cast of characters forms a formidable bond while they jet and boat around the world to take down the criminals

Author : Adrian Stokes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136443565

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Reflections on the Nude by Adrian Stokes Pdf

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1967 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Author : Regis McCafferty
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491700112

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The Nude on the Cigarette Case by Regis McCafferty Pdf

December 1939. Nighttime Manhattan. Snow mixed with rain. Two shots ring out in an alley. Max Grant, private investigator, two double bourbons under his belt, enters the alley to investigate. A man, two bullets in his chest, dying, paws at his coat pocket. His only words are, "Find the nude on the cigarette case." Grant removes the cigarette case, looks at the picture, pockets it, then calls to bystanders to get the police. Curiosity, even without a client, prompts him to investigate and leads him into the murky sphere of activity that surrounds the beginnings of the atom bomb. The war in Europe is public, but something else was going on, quietly, behind the scenes, never making headlines in major newspapers or news programs on radio. Walter Lippman doesnt write about it and Edward R. Murrow never mentions it in his CBS news broadcasts. That something is the exchange of nuclear fission information between mathematicians and physicists in the Unites States, England, and Europe. In 1939 that information exchange has diminished in volume between the western scientific communities and those under German control and influence, most notably Denmark and Norway. Sarah Bennett, the nude on the cigarette case, has been kidnapped and is being held in the Redhook area of New York by German agents. Bennett, a scientist, travels Europe under the guise of an art dealer but is also the conduit for shared information between scientists in Nazi dominated Europe and those in the United States. And Max Grant, in love with a photo on a cigarette case, is just the guy to go looking for her.

Author : Ellis Avery
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594486470

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The Last Nude by Ellis Avery Pdf

Agreeing to model nude for Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka in 1927 Paris, young American Rafaela Fano inspires the artist's most iconic Jazz Age images and becomes her lover while discovering darker truths about Tamara's private life.

Author : Gill Saunders
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1871569060

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The Nude by Gill Saunders Pdf

Author : D. M. Field
Publisher : Bookthrift
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : 0896730875

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The Nude in Art by D. M. Field Pdf

The nude has been interpreted through the vision of artists in countless ways -- the classical splendor of ancient Hellas, the innocence of Botticelli's Venus, the voluptuous women of Rubens, the magnificent sculptures of Michelangelo and Rodin, the modern nudes of Modigliani and Picasso, the famous Muybridge sequence photographs of the human figure in motion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780978182717

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Naked by Anonim Pdf

Performed by: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge.Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.

Author : Stuart Elliot
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781847978257

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Drawing the Nude by Stuart Elliot Pdf

Drawing the Nude presents an exciting approach to drawing the human body. Divided into three parts, on structure, anatomy and observation, it introduces a set of principles and develops a treasury of ideas for the artist to follow. Whilst recognizing the importance of observation, it focuses more on a conceptual understanding of the construction of the body in anatomical terms. In doing so, it encourages the cultivation of more informed observation and accommodates those who work from memory, imagination and invention. Contents: the drawing of elementary forms that can then be distorted, transformed and combined, leading on to compound forms; explains the use of light and shadows to express form; explains the gesture of the figure through short drawings that analyse the flow of movement through the body; studies the musculo-skeletal form and provides a set of tools for analysing its parts; uses direct and concise drawings, alongside images of digital sculptures of human anatomy; gives practical instruction relevant to both the novice and the experienced figure artist, as well as those working within the visual effects and game industries.Superbly illustrated with 199 images that include digital sculptures of human anatomy and concise drawings.

Author : Mike Crawley
Publisher : David & Charles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0715314556

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Photographing the Nude by Mike Crawley Pdf

Mike Crawley's Photographing the Nude is a thoroughly practical and inspiring guide for photographers of all levels. It begins by teaching a number of basic skills key to developing a sound understanding of the art -- nude photography shares many of the same technical problems as other areas of portraiture.Crawley demonstrates a wide range of classic lighting techniques, from soft diffuse lighting for a romantic mood to direct lighting that emphasizes the contours and musculature of the body. Knowing what poses are good for figure work is also essential. To that end, specially commissioned photographic sequences demonstrate the dos and don'ts.Readers will also find information on taking more creative shots such as semi-abstracts, and technical challenges such as infra-red prints and digital manipulations. Chapters on darkroom and digital know-how form the final invaluable section.

Author : Karolien de Clippel,Katarina Van Cauteren
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 2503535690

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The Nude and the Norm in the Early Modern Low Countries by Karolien de Clippel,Katarina Van Cauteren Pdf

Table of Contents: Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Introduction - Eric Jan Sluijter, The Nude, the Artist and the Model: The Case of Rembrandt - Erna Kok, The Female Nude from Life: On Studio Practice and Beholder Fantasy - Victoria Sancho Lobis, Printed Drawing Books and the Dissemination of Ideal Male Anatomy in Northern Europe - Paul Taylor, Colouring Nakedness in Netherlandish Art and Theory - Hubert Meeus, Two Founts of Ivory: Nudity on Stage in the Seventeenth Century Low Countries - -Johan Verberckmoes, Is that Flesh for Sale? Seventeenth-Century Jests on Nudity in the Spanish Netherlands - Ralph Dekoninck, Art Stripped Bare by the Theologians, Even: Image of Nudity / Nudity of Image in the Post-Tridentine Religious Literature - Veerle De Laet, Een Naeckt Kindt, een Naeckt Vrauwken ende Andere Figueren: An Analysis of Nude Representations in the Brussels Domestic Setting.

Author : M. J. Parker
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1689139889

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The Nuder Detective by M. J. Parker Pdf

This time, smart and cheeky Ethan, his daring ex-cop-cum-girlfriend Marcy, and their skilled team are on a covert mission to find a missing woman - Moy Lei - by request of her mother Chiyome. Under duress, Ethan and his team agree to help find the missing daughter, only to discover that she possesses certain 'abilities' - powers held by a select group, mostly used for malevolent purposes. Their dangerous mission takes the team across the world, with stops in Canada, Scotland, the UK, and the Azores. The team encounters events and players beyond their wildest dreams, filled with one hair-raising encounter after another.