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Loading... The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (original 1956; edition 1972)by Kenneth Clark (Author)
Work InformationThe Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark (1956)
![]() Folio Society (770) No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() I've wanted to read this book for years and years. It is a lovely, coherent history of the artistic nude. It speaks of the meanings of certain poses, how they were used and transformed through the ages. Clark uses lots of photographs to give visual references. A wonderful introduction to the study of art. While it's written in a very accessible style, this book is aimed at art historians. If statements like "The ideal form of Apollo scarcely appears again before that false dawn of the Renaissance, Nicola Pisano's pulpit in the Baptistery of Pisa" don't leave you scratching your head about who Pisano was and when that false dawn happened (the book doesn't give even a hint), then you might really get a lot out of it. Amateurs can still enjoy it, but might feel--as I did--that they're missing out on many of Clark's finer points. no reviews | add a review
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From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)704.9421The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts Special topics in fine and decorative arts Iconography Human figures and their partsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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