The nude : a study in ideal form / Kenneth Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1953.

Bollingen series ; 35:2.

The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1953

Bollingen series ; 35:2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nude in art.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Cumberledge, Bryan K. (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi, 458 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [1984]

Summary:

This volume surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form, from the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Henry Moore. The author distinguishes between "naked" and "nude" with relation to cultural, philosophic, and religious attitudes in the classic and Western Christian worlds. He analyzes the postures, gestures, poses, and body formations of the undressed human figure. His definition of the nude -- a "balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed" came at the end of a century-long debate about what should be allowed in representation and justifies the pursuit of contemplating the female body as a pure aesthetic experience.

Contents:

The naked and the nude

Apollo

Venus I

Venus II

Energy

Pathos

Ecstasy

The alternative convention

The nude as an end in itself.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-421) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "Return this book to Bryan K. Cumberledge and take it nevermore" on p.2 of cover.

ISBN:

0691097925

9780691097923

0691017883

9780691017884

OCLC:

16306004