num_pages: 458
description: Originating from a series of lectures delivered in 1953 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, this book discusses the nude as an idealized version of the body—a body conceived in geometric terms. Examining beauty and its presence or absence in the human form, Clark traces the nude through two major periods, antiquity and the Renaissance, and also addresses the alternative geometries of the medieval era and the modern period. "...delightfully written."—Times Literary Supplement. B&amp;W illus. 458pp.
language: English
title: The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
titlecomplete: The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
genres: History, Visual Art, Reference, Philosophy, Art History, Art Design, Academic, Cultural, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 562
publisher: Fine Communications