Naked: The Nude in America - Hardcover

Dijkstra, Bram

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9780847833665: Naked: The Nude in America

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847833666 ISBN 13: 9780847833665

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2010

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With more than 350 colour illustrations, this is an exhaustive presentation of the nude and the naked in American art and photography, from the 18th-century to the present.

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"The Sexiest Nude Art You've Never Seen: A gorgeous new book, "Naked" by Bram Dijkstra, highlights the most famous, eye-popping, game-changing pieces of naked artwork in the world... Check out all of the envelope-pushing paintings, photographs, sketches, and sculptures in the new book "Naked: The Nude in America" by Bram Dijkstra" "Cosmopolitan" ""Naked" is a thorough exploration of America's sometimes puritanical and sometimes perverse relationship with the nude in the visual arts. Dijkstra brilliantly illustrates more than four hundred and twenty American works portraying the naked body in a myriad of manifestations. The book reads like an incisive lecture, sparing no criticism for American culture and its hypocrisies. The book features gorgeous artworks long hidden in museum vaults for fear of offending conservative patrons. From Andrew Wyeth to racy comicbook covers, "Naked" reveals the hidden history of the American nude in the first comprehensive book to be published on teh subject in more than thirty-five years. This is more than just an art book -- it is a long overdue statement about America's peculiar attitude towards the naked human body." "THE" ..".gorgeously illustrated book called "Naked" which explores the traditional, the beautiful, and the shocking in the portrayal of the nude in America... a tremendously beautiful coffee table book." KPBS Radio "In 'Naked, ' Dijkstra, a specialist in comparative literature who has written extensively about art, deftly assembles a richly illustrated history of the American nude that spans centuries and media, from Benjamin West's 18th century mythological scenes (naked cupids galore) through (tame) Edward Hopper paintings to Terry Richardon's lascivious photographs of pole dancers (my goodness)." ArtInfo.com "Bram Dijkstra's exploration of the history of nudity in American art is a bit of a two-for-one deal: a hybrid of controversial coffee table book and in-depth social and political tre

About the Author:

Bram Dijkstra is professor emeritus of comparative literature and cultural history at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books, including "American Expressionism, Art and Social Change, 1920-1950" and "Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture."

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