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Degas and the Nude

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Author : George T. M. Shackelford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500093627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Degas and the Nude written by George T. M. Shackelford and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas and the Nude is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.

The Nude

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Author : Kenneth Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252890
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Nude written by Kenneth Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark study of the nude in art—from the ancient Greeks to Henry Moore—by a towering figure in art history In this classic book, Kenneth Clark, one of the most eminent art historians of the twentieth century, examines the ever-changing fashion in what constitutes the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form, from the art of the ancient Greeks to that of Renoir, Matisse, and Henry Moore. The Nude reveals the sensitivity of aesthetic theory to fashion, what distinguishes the naked from the nude, and just why the nude has played such an important role in art history. As Clark writes, “The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which man is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshipped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.” Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Nude

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Author : Naeem Murr
Publisher : Gemma
ISBN 13 : 1936846071
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Nude written by Naeem Murr and published by Gemma. This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Butler wished once to be an artist, but scandal destroyed his life. Now old and sick, he takes us back through his troubled childhood, England's blitz, and two passionate and destructive affairs. We see his life as an autobiography of nudes. Returning to his former London haunts, he confronts old friends who have never forgiven him his sins, and after making his confession to a defrocked priest, sets out on a journey along the Thames that will bring him to the final and naked truth about himself.

Nude Souls

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Author : Benjamin Swift (pseud. [i.e. William Romaine Paterson.])
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Nude Souls written by Benjamin Swift (pseud. [i.e. William Romaine Paterson.]) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book-plates of To-day

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Author : Wilbur Macey Stone
Publisher : New York : Tonnelé
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Book-plates of To-day written by Wilbur Macey Stone and published by New York : Tonnelé. This book was released on 1902 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on bookplates by various authors.

J.F. Millet and Rustic Art

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Author : Henry Naegely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book J.F. Millet and Rustic Art written by Henry Naegely and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

DeKok and the Somber Nude

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Author : A.C. Baantjer
Publisher : De Fontein Romans & Spanning
ISBN 13 : 9026169248
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book DeKok and the Somber Nude written by A.C. Baantjer and published by De Fontein Romans & Spanning. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. A young woman has gone missing, but she was hiding her own share of secrets... A beautiful, free-spirited young woman has gone missing, and those closest to her fear for her life. Inspector DeKok is soon called upon to find out her whereabouts. It quickly becomes clear that this Nanette may have harbored a dark side, one that embraced blackmail, emotional cruelty, and a wicked selfishness. The more DeKok learns of the beguiling Nanette, the more he feels that he is on the trail of a dead woman. DeKok’s suspicions are confirmed with a phone call: the dismembered body of a young woman has been found at the city dump. Now DeKok has to find the bloodied hands responsible for the somber-eyed woman’s murder.

Jerusalem

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Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631491350
Total Pages : 1954 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem written by Alan Moore and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 1954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal Winner of the Audie Award The New York Times bestseller from the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta finally appears in a one-volume paperback. Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this “magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic” (Guardian) by Alan Moore—the genre-defying, “groundbreaking, hairy genius of our generation” (NPR)—takes its place among the most notable works of contemporary English literature. In decaying Northampton, eternity loiters between housing projects. Among saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a timeline unravels: second-century fiends wait in urine-scented stairwells, delinquent specters undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors, laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake’s eternal holy city in “Moore’s apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony” (Entertainment Weekly). This “brilliant . . . monumentally ambitious” tale from the gutter is “a massive literary achievement for our time—and maybe for all times simultaneously” (Washington Post).

Fine Arts Journal

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Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Fine Arts Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some of the Moderns

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Author : Sir Frederick Wedmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some of the Moderns written by Sir Frederick Wedmore and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communal Nude

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Author : Robert Gluck
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1584351756
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Communal Nude written by Robert Gluck and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille. I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible—relation itself—in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to “wake up” to the world, to recognize the world, to be convinced that the world exists, to take revenge on the world for not existing. —from Communal Nude Since cofounding San Francisco's influential New Narrative circle in 1979, Robert Glück has been one of America's finest prose stylists of innovative fiction, bending narrative into the service of autobiography, politics, and gay writing. This collection brings together for the first time Glück's nonfiction, a revelatory body of work that anchors his writing practice. Glück's essays explore the ways that storytelling and selfhood are mutually embedded cultural forms, cohering a fractured social reality where generating narrative means generating identity means generating community. “I'd laugh at (make art from) any version of self,” Glück writes, “I write about these forms—that are myself—to dispense with them, to demonstrate how they disintegrate before the world, the body.” For any body—or text—to know itself, it must first see how it sees the world, and understand itself as writing. Glück's essays affirm this radical narratorial precept in rich spirals of reading, self-reflection, anecdote, escapade, and “metatext.” These texts span the author's career and his creative affinities—from lost manifestos theorizing the poetics of New Narrative; to encomia for literary and philosophic muses (Kathy Acker, the HOW(ever) poets, Frank O'Hara, Georges Bataille, and others); to narrative journalism, book reviews, criticism, and public talks. Many of the texts are culled from obscure little magazines and ephemeral online sources; others have never been published. As lucid as story, as lush as theory, and as irresistible as gossip, Glück's essays are the quintessence of New Narrative theory in practice.

The Art Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exquisite Curves

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Author : A. K. Nicholas
Publisher : Bella Nuda Arts
ISBN 13 : 9780985026479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Exquisite Curves written by A. K. Nicholas and published by Bella Nuda Arts. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lines of the female form are a masterpiece of nature. There are infinite ways to represent this beauty. The photographer, creates work that is appealing, fitting, and meaningful. This guide presents the material through five main chapters: Composition, Technique, Posing, Self-Expression, and Camera Assignments.

The Cycle of Development of the Art of Sculpture in Greece and Rome

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Author : Hodder Michael Westropp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cycle of Development of the Art of Sculpture in Greece and Rome written by Hodder Michael Westropp and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Renaissance Nude

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Author : Thomas Kren
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 160606584X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Nude written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Amazons

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Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400865131
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Amazons written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real history of the Amazons in war and love Amazons—fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world—were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons. But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China. Mayor tells how amazing new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons prove that women warriors were not merely figments of the Greek imagination. Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, she reveals intimate, surprising details and original insights about the lives and legends of the women known as Amazons. Provocatively arguing that a timeless search for a balance between the sexes explains the allure of the Amazons, Mayor reminds us that there were as many Amazon love stories as there were war stories. The Greeks were not the only people enchanted by Amazons—Mayor shows that warlike women of nomadic cultures inspired exciting tales in ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia, and China. Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. The result is likely to become a classic.

The Connoisseur

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: