The Nude

  • The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
    By National Gallery of Art, D.C.)., Kenneth Clark

    From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form.

  • The Nude: Ideal and Reality : from Neoclassicism to Today : [painting and Sculpture]
    By Paolo Fabbri, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Itália)

    The theme of the nude has always exercised a particular fascination on artists and viewers alike, and the representation of the human form has inspired some of the finest works...

  • The Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity
    By Richard Leppert

    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.

  • The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
    By Kenneth Clark

    From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form.

  • The Nude
    By Margaret Sisu

    But it is Sisus analysis of the creative process that forms the heart of this novel; she explores the artistic mentality in all its bizarre and often-misunderstood facets and digs deep into the dark underbelly of creative genius and its ...