On the Nude

On the Nude: Addressing Old and New Perspectives
Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris

Part 1: On Denuding




The Dagenham Idol: A Neolithic Wooden Figurine Denuded
Nicholas Chare and Nathanael Price




Poking Out 'the Soft Part': The Raw and the Cooked Body in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Maria Margaroni




Discursive Blurring in Representations of Classical Rapes and Abductions
Ersy Contogouris




Writing and Nudity: Nelly Arcan and Vanessa Beecroft's Girls
Martine Delvaux

Part 2: Body Politics and the Nude




Images of Solace: Looking beyond Violence in Cassils's Art
I. Milan Cail




S[H]E: Black Body Politics and Gender
Lisa E. Farrington




Un-shaming the Greenlandic Female Body: The Indigenous Nude in Performance Art
Kirsten Thisted




Watching One's Back: Self-Portraits of Disabled Women's Backs as Provocative and Protective
Ann Millet-Gallant

Part 3: Photography and the Nude




Nan Goldin's Sag Harbor Pictures
Emma Wilson




Creating a Space and a (Visual) Language in the Work of Laura Aguilar
Ann Marie Leimer




The Animal Nude: Pony Play and Deborah Bright's Being & Riding Valerie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare
Part 4: The Male Nude




Queeriosity: Does Hair Have a Gender? Around Del LaGrace Volcano, Daniela Comani, Katarzyna Kozyra, Ana Mendieta, and Cindy Sherman
Frederique Villemur




Art, Aesthetics, and Male Genitalia
Richard Leppert




Imperfect Beauty: Nudity, Classicism, Race, and Homoerotic Desire in the Male Nudes of George Dureau
James Smalls

Part 5: On Being Nude




A Short Story About a Big Healing (Extracts)
Joanna Frueh




Looking beyond the Image: Cassils in Conversation with Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris
Cassils




Ways of Connecting with the Secret World behind the Life Model: Sarah R. Phillips in Conversation with Nicholas Chare and Ersy Contogouris
Sarah R. Phillips




Notes Introducing '(Unfinished) Soliloquy of a Nude'
Kathleen G. Williamson




(Unfinished) Soliloquy of a Nude
Joanna Frueh



Joanna Frueh