Nude
Subtitle: art from the Tate collection
By: Emma Chambers and Justin Paton
Contributors: Paton, Justin, author, editor; Art Gallery of New South Wales
Publisher: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781741741278
Subjects: Nude in art; Human figure in art; Nu; Expositions; Corps humain dans l'art; Tate Gallery
Description: Through over 125 works by 69 artists, Nude takes a new look at this age-old subject. From Frederic Lord Leighton's 'The bath of Psyche' exhibited in 1890 to Ron Mueck's 'Wild man' of 2005, Nude traverses familiar and unfamiliar territory considering the nude in art history but also social history. It looks at the transformation of the naked body 'from a focus of high art training where students learnt the skills of life drawing as a prelude to producing history painting, through a genre that was at the centre of modernist ... experimentation, to a site of political activism and identity politics. The book includes two essays - 'Flesh and form: redefining the nude in the twentieth century' by Emma Chambers and 'Body language: notes on the painted nude' by Justin Paton. The artworks are divided into eight themes - historical, private, modern, real/surreal, paint as flesh, erotic, body politics and vulnerable body Each with a short introduction and an entry on each work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical nude; title: The private nude; title: The modern nude; title: Real and surreal bodies; title: Paint as flesh; title: The erotic nude; title: body politics; title: The vulnerable body.