1st Edition
The Nude The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity
By Richard Leppert
Copyright 2007
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: The State of Being without Clothes—in Art , Representing the Young Innocence, Nakedness, and the Adult Imaginary , The Female Nude: Surfaces of Desire , The Male Nude Identity and Denial , Afterword
Biography
Richard Leppert
