Naked : the nude in America

Naked : the nude in America /

Surveys the history of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture.

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Author / Contributor: Dijkstra, Bram
Imprint: New York : Rizzoli, 2010.
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Nude in art.
Art, American.
Photography > United States > History.
Erotic art > United States.
Outsider art > United States.
United States > Moral conditions.
American art.
Series:Internet Archive Lending Library
Table of Contents:
  • Developing the myth of feminine dependency
  • From Hercules to Superman
  • The "new" woman : fading flower or scourge of nature?
  • The dangerous incursion of physical reality
  • Retreat to the dream
  • The sexual geography of the human body
  • Discovery of the pubes
  • The socio-cultural dimension
  • Modernism and the anti-classical body aesthetic
  • The subconscious and the nude
  • Invasion of the Pin-up queens
  • The inexorable rise of the breast
  • Art, prurience, pop, or porn?
  • Naked trends and enduring traditions.

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