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The Nude, The Gill Saunders

The Nude, The By Gill Saunders

The Nude, The by Gill Saunders


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Summary

This book accompanies an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum and it surveys the portrayal of the nude in art and photography. Recent moral and social changes, as well as aesthetic and technological developments have produced new attitudes to the role and meaning of the naked body in art.

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The Nude, The: A New Perspective by Gill Saunders

This book accompanies an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum and it surveys the portrayal of the nude in art and photography, with particular attention given to the female nude from classical Greece to the present day. Recent moral and social changes, as well as aesthetic and technological developments have produced new attitudes to the role and meaning of the naked body in art. The author who studies the changing attitudes from the perspective of the eighties was editor of and contributor to "100 Great Paintings in the V&A".

Table of Contents

Historical context; active versus passive; fetishized female; nature versus culture; new directions.

Additional information

GOR003338096
9781871569063
1871569060
The Nude, The: A New Perspective by Gill Saunders
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1989-04-27
144
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