The Naked Nude (Hardback) /anglais - Couverture rigide

Borzello, Frances

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0500238928 ISBN 13 : 9780500238929

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Borzello Frances

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection. In this fluent and engaging new study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilized, sanitized, perfected artistic nude of Kenneth Clarks classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with todays depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, both male and female, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradictions that surround the body in our time. Borzello explores the role of the nude in 20th- and 21st-century art, looking at the work of a wide range of international artists creating contemporary nudes. Her fascinating text is complemented by a profusion of well-chosen, unusual and beautifully reproduced illustrations. The story begins with a tale of life, death and resurrection an investigation into how and why the nude has survived and flourished in an art world that prematurely announced its demise. Subsequent chapters take a thematic approach, focusing in turn on Body art and Performance art, the new perspectives of women artists, the nude in painting, portraiture and sculpture and in its most extreme and graphic expressions that intentionally push the boundaries of both art and our comfort zone. A skilled communicator with an ability to make us want to look at art and think anew about it, Borzello has much to say about modern art and about our contemporary and historical cultural fixation with the body and the nude.

Revue de presse

The Naked Nude offers a fascinating, often humorous overview of our obsession with the naked body, and benefits from many wonderful colour reproductions. --Telegraph Online

Frances Borzello has produced a thoughtful, highly intelligent book, tracking the newly frank, newly naked nude. It is highly readable. --RA Magazine

Borzello brilliantly updates the evasively genteel distinction between naked and nude made by Kenneth Clark in 1956 ... Borzello's illustrations are titillating, embarrassing and sometimes outright disgusting: here we find art holding a mirror up to our troublesome human nature. --The Observer

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0500238928
• ISBN 13: 9780500238929
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 192