The Nude
Kenneth Clark(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-14-017336-9 (ISBN)
Description
The author traces the history of the depiction of the human body from the earliest civilized times to the present day. Starting with the Greeks who used the nude to express certain fundamental human needs, such as the need for harmony and order (Apollo), and the need to sublimate desire (Venus), he shows how these types of bodily expression were revived in 15th-century Italy and given new urgency by Michelangelo, whose genius almost exhausted the possibilities of the male nude. The female body, however, through Titian, Rubens, Ingres and Renoir has continued to be a source of pictorial inspiration, and the author examines the uneasy relationship with the nude of such moderns as Matisse and Picasso.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-017336-9 (9780140173369)
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