Author: Victor Navarre
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781483693897
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Extreme Art Nudes" has taken the classic nude out of the boudoir... WAY out! Maintaining a highly artistic perspective, we have explored a number of fetishes and other situations that are atypical of the classic nude. This juxtaposition of the soft female form with harsh elements creates the most visually compelling imagery. It is a celebration of the great inner strength that women share, and exhibited herein by my amazing model and muse, Vanessa. Brief erotic essays accompany the spectacular, full-color and timeless B&W photographs. They provide the reader with a spicy insider's perspective related to the genesis and creation of each image. Also, as the chapters unfold, they will reveal a love story - that special relationship between an artist and muse.
Extreme Art Nudes
Author: Victor Navarre
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781483693897
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Extreme Art Nudes" has taken the classic nude out of the boudoir... WAY out! Maintaining a highly artistic perspective, we have explored a number of fetishes and other situations that are atypical of the classic nude. This juxtaposition of the soft female form with harsh elements creates the most visually compelling imagery. It is a celebration of the great inner strength that women share, and exhibited herein by my amazing model and muse, Vanessa. Brief erotic essays accompany the spectacular, full-color and timeless B&W photographs. They provide the reader with a spicy insider's perspective related to the genesis and creation of each image. Also, as the chapters unfold, they will reveal a love story - that special relationship between an artist and muse.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781483693897
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Extreme Art Nudes" has taken the classic nude out of the boudoir... WAY out! Maintaining a highly artistic perspective, we have explored a number of fetishes and other situations that are atypical of the classic nude. This juxtaposition of the soft female form with harsh elements creates the most visually compelling imagery. It is a celebration of the great inner strength that women share, and exhibited herein by my amazing model and muse, Vanessa. Brief erotic essays accompany the spectacular, full-color and timeless B&W photographs. They provide the reader with a spicy insider's perspective related to the genesis and creation of each image. Also, as the chapters unfold, they will reveal a love story - that special relationship between an artist and muse.
Nude Ohio
Author: Michael Enoches
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936882601
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
n a way, that is how I came to be a photographer. I started as a painter. I used to dream my paintings and then paint them. I had gallery showings throughout the Midwest. A painting takes time to create. It can be hours, days, or months before the piece is finished. A photograph is there and gone in a split second. A photograph is a challenge. A challenge to capture time and light as the photographer sees it. It's a challenge to capture beauty, so that it may remain for all to enjoy, timeless. I use my skills as a painter to see the world. I look at my photos as paintings. My goal is to have each one stand alone as a work of art. I was always a good drawer in school, doodles in my notebook more than anything. I was interested in art in college but majored in archaeology instead. When I began my first real art class I learned about shape, color and form. I learned the basics of what makes an art piece interesting. When you add the concepts of line, contrast and texture to the subjects, your work begins to pop. Still life gave way to figure and human form drawing. The proper way to understand the human form is to view it nude. You need to have an understanding of how the body moves and how it is shaped. When you begin to add layers of clothing you start to understand how the fabric lays, how it follows the contours of the body. I take the same approach to my photography. The best way to see the angles of the body and the lines it creates is to view it nude. I started getting serious about photography in 2008. I needed models for some paintings I was doing for a show. I began to photograph models for my paintings. I found it was easier to create art with my camera and my computer than it was to create it on a canvas. I am, for the most part, a self-taught photographer. I have learned along the way from some great photographers. I pick up little tricks here and there and I am a quick learner. Everyone has a different way of doing things. I try to incorporate what works best for me. The most important lesson I have learned is to get it right with the camera. The closer the photo is to perfect when it is taken the less time you have to spend trying to correct it. I have been published on several websites, mainly models submitting the photos I take to promote themselves. I am always glad when they get the recognition they deserve. Without quality models to work with, I would be shooting flowers and landscapes. Even though I do enjoy flowers and landscapes, a flower in bloom is an amazing sight and a beautiful landscape tells a story. That brings us to the purpose of this book. I hope you enjoy the scenery as much as the models. The models are not sexual objects but rather, they are art. They are shape, color and form. Their bodies adding texture and contrast to the piece, smooth skin with a rough rock surface or tree bark. I think in the end I wanted to explore how humans, in their natural state, conflict and contrast with nature. I wanted to show the beauty that is Ohio. As long as I have places to explore and models to accompany me, I will be out there capturing the world around me, as I see it and how I want to present it to the world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936882601
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
n a way, that is how I came to be a photographer. I started as a painter. I used to dream my paintings and then paint them. I had gallery showings throughout the Midwest. A painting takes time to create. It can be hours, days, or months before the piece is finished. A photograph is there and gone in a split second. A photograph is a challenge. A challenge to capture time and light as the photographer sees it. It's a challenge to capture beauty, so that it may remain for all to enjoy, timeless. I use my skills as a painter to see the world. I look at my photos as paintings. My goal is to have each one stand alone as a work of art. I was always a good drawer in school, doodles in my notebook more than anything. I was interested in art in college but majored in archaeology instead. When I began my first real art class I learned about shape, color and form. I learned the basics of what makes an art piece interesting. When you add the concepts of line, contrast and texture to the subjects, your work begins to pop. Still life gave way to figure and human form drawing. The proper way to understand the human form is to view it nude. You need to have an understanding of how the body moves and how it is shaped. When you begin to add layers of clothing you start to understand how the fabric lays, how it follows the contours of the body. I take the same approach to my photography. The best way to see the angles of the body and the lines it creates is to view it nude. I started getting serious about photography in 2008. I needed models for some paintings I was doing for a show. I began to photograph models for my paintings. I found it was easier to create art with my camera and my computer than it was to create it on a canvas. I am, for the most part, a self-taught photographer. I have learned along the way from some great photographers. I pick up little tricks here and there and I am a quick learner. Everyone has a different way of doing things. I try to incorporate what works best for me. The most important lesson I have learned is to get it right with the camera. The closer the photo is to perfect when it is taken the less time you have to spend trying to correct it. I have been published on several websites, mainly models submitting the photos I take to promote themselves. I am always glad when they get the recognition they deserve. Without quality models to work with, I would be shooting flowers and landscapes. Even though I do enjoy flowers and landscapes, a flower in bloom is an amazing sight and a beautiful landscape tells a story. That brings us to the purpose of this book. I hope you enjoy the scenery as much as the models. The models are not sexual objects but rather, they are art. They are shape, color and form. Their bodies adding texture and contrast to the piece, smooth skin with a rough rock surface or tree bark. I think in the end I wanted to explore how humans, in their natural state, conflict and contrast with nature. I wanted to show the beauty that is Ohio. As long as I have places to explore and models to accompany me, I will be out there capturing the world around me, as I see it and how I want to present it to the world.
Naked Exhibitionism
Author: Claire Nally
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857724924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitionism from criminal taboo to prime-time entertainment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which brings together all fields of popular culture, including literature, media, film and linguistics, Claire Nally and Angela Smith offer an examination of gendered exhibitionism from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. They ask whether bodily exposure provides the liberation it professes to or restricts our most secret selves to the sanitised realm of socially-sanctioned gender roles. From the art of burlesque as a riotous kingdom of the imagination to reality TV which helps women to unearth their 'true' and buried feminine selves, Nally and Smith explore how the critical history and theory of exhibitionism intersects with the wider movement towards gender equality. Examining effects of second-wave feminism to problematise the naked female form, female and gender-transgressive performers from Bette Davis to Dita von Teese are placed in their cultural context. In order to demonstrate that female exhibitionism reamins at the heart of popular culture, this book also examines the works of Peter Ackroyd and the controversial playwright Sarah Kane, uncovering the contradictions behind evolving representations of public exposure. Within a post-feminist framework, the cultural constructions behind the repackaging of female exhibitionism are explored and the prominence of bodily exposure in popular culture examined, along with the implications of those artists who perform gender as a public masquerade. Finally, hit TV shows 'Ladette to Lady' and 'How to Look Good Naked' are interrogated to expose the buried contradictions behind this public unveiling: are women seizing control of their own identity, or is this revelation an illusion? Innovative, unflinching and pertinent, 'Naked Exhibitionism' explores naked bodies in the public gaze and critically reformulates the feminist and cultural debate around the performance of gender.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857724924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitionism from criminal taboo to prime-time entertainment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which brings together all fields of popular culture, including literature, media, film and linguistics, Claire Nally and Angela Smith offer an examination of gendered exhibitionism from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. They ask whether bodily exposure provides the liberation it professes to or restricts our most secret selves to the sanitised realm of socially-sanctioned gender roles. From the art of burlesque as a riotous kingdom of the imagination to reality TV which helps women to unearth their 'true' and buried feminine selves, Nally and Smith explore how the critical history and theory of exhibitionism intersects with the wider movement towards gender equality. Examining effects of second-wave feminism to problematise the naked female form, female and gender-transgressive performers from Bette Davis to Dita von Teese are placed in their cultural context. In order to demonstrate that female exhibitionism reamins at the heart of popular culture, this book also examines the works of Peter Ackroyd and the controversial playwright Sarah Kane, uncovering the contradictions behind evolving representations of public exposure. Within a post-feminist framework, the cultural constructions behind the repackaging of female exhibitionism are explored and the prominence of bodily exposure in popular culture examined, along with the implications of those artists who perform gender as a public masquerade. Finally, hit TV shows 'Ladette to Lady' and 'How to Look Good Naked' are interrogated to expose the buried contradictions behind this public unveiling: are women seizing control of their own identity, or is this revelation an illusion? Innovative, unflinching and pertinent, 'Naked Exhibitionism' explores naked bodies in the public gaze and critically reformulates the feminist and cultural debate around the performance of gender.
The Renaissance Nude
Author: Thomas Kren
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606584X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 160606584X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.
The Far East
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Naked Nude
Author: Frances Borzello
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500777713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection. In this newly updated study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilized, sanitized, perfected nude of Kenneth Clarks classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with todays depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, depicting variously gendered bodies, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradictions that surround the body in our time. Borzello explores the role of the nude in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, looking at the work of a wide range of international artists creating contemporary nudes. Her fascinating text is complemented by a profusion of well-chosen, unusual and beautifully reproduced illustrations. The story begins with a tale of life, death and resurrection an investigation into how and why the nude has survived and flourished in an art world that prematurely announced its demise. Subsequent chapters take a thematic approach, focusing in turn on Body art and Performance art, the new perspectives of women artists, the nude in painting, portraiture and sculpture and in its most extreme and graphic expressions that intentionally push the boundaries of both art and our comfort zone. The final chapter illustrates radical developments in art and culture over the last decade, focusing in particular on artworks by women, trans artists and artists of colour. Borzello links these works to their art-historical and political predecessors, demonstrating the continually unending capacity of the nude to disrupt traditional hierarchies and gender categories in life and art.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500777713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection. In this newly updated study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilized, sanitized, perfected nude of Kenneth Clarks classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with todays depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, depicting variously gendered bodies, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradictions that surround the body in our time. Borzello explores the role of the nude in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, looking at the work of a wide range of international artists creating contemporary nudes. Her fascinating text is complemented by a profusion of well-chosen, unusual and beautifully reproduced illustrations. The story begins with a tale of life, death and resurrection an investigation into how and why the nude has survived and flourished in an art world that prematurely announced its demise. Subsequent chapters take a thematic approach, focusing in turn on Body art and Performance art, the new perspectives of women artists, the nude in painting, portraiture and sculpture and in its most extreme and graphic expressions that intentionally push the boundaries of both art and our comfort zone. The final chapter illustrates radical developments in art and culture over the last decade, focusing in particular on artworks by women, trans artists and artists of colour. Borzello links these works to their art-historical and political predecessors, demonstrating the continually unending capacity of the nude to disrupt traditional hierarchies and gender categories in life and art.
The Nude
Author: Kenneth Clark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252890
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A landmark study of the nude in art—from the ancient Greeks to Henry Moore—by a towering figure in art history In this classic book, Kenneth Clark, one of the most eminent art historians of the twentieth century, examines the ever-changing fashion in what constitutes the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form, from the art of the ancient Greeks to that of Renoir, Matisse, and Henry Moore. The Nude reveals the sensitivity of aesthetic theory to fashion, what distinguishes the naked from the nude, and just why the nude has played such an important role in art history. As Clark writes, “The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which man is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshipped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.” Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252890
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A landmark study of the nude in art—from the ancient Greeks to Henry Moore—by a towering figure in art history In this classic book, Kenneth Clark, one of the most eminent art historians of the twentieth century, examines the ever-changing fashion in what constitutes the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form, from the art of the ancient Greeks to that of Renoir, Matisse, and Henry Moore. The Nude reveals the sensitivity of aesthetic theory to fashion, what distinguishes the naked from the nude, and just why the nude has played such an important role in art history. As Clark writes, “The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which man is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshipped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.” Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
The Nude
Author: Richard Leppert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042996465X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author Richard Leppert relates the visual history of how the naked body intersects with the foundational characteristics of what it is to be human, measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness, delight, and desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the context of changing social and cultural realities. The bodies comprising the Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented, ecstatic or bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume amply demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose surface is written a summation of Western history: its glory but also its degradation.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042996465X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author Richard Leppert relates the visual history of how the naked body intersects with the foundational characteristics of what it is to be human, measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness, delight, and desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the context of changing social and cultural realities. The bodies comprising the Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented, ecstatic or bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume amply demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose surface is written a summation of Western history: its glory but also its degradation.
The Art of Nude Photography
Author: Pascal Baetens
Publisher: Amphoto Books
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Published under the title Allegro Sensible in Germany, The Art of Nude Photography is already a best-seller throughout Europe. Now available for the first time in English, this beautiful oversized volume presents over 160 duotone images of sensuous and sublime female nudes by up-and-coming photographer Pascal Baetens. According to photographer Jeff Dunas, "Baeten's work reveals energy, a discipline, and a love of his subject. Baeten's photography has that essential 'something' - you either have it, or you don't. You can't learn it. That special 'something' is the ability to truly reach your subject - create a vision, and have complete complicity with the object you are photographing." Includes over 150 sublime examples of this up-and-coming photographer's work.
Publisher: Amphoto Books
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Published under the title Allegro Sensible in Germany, The Art of Nude Photography is already a best-seller throughout Europe. Now available for the first time in English, this beautiful oversized volume presents over 160 duotone images of sensuous and sublime female nudes by up-and-coming photographer Pascal Baetens. According to photographer Jeff Dunas, "Baeten's work reveals energy, a discipline, and a love of his subject. Baeten's photography has that essential 'something' - you either have it, or you don't. You can't learn it. That special 'something' is the ability to truly reach your subject - create a vision, and have complete complicity with the object you are photographing." Includes over 150 sublime examples of this up-and-coming photographer's work.
The Nude in Art
Author: D. M. Field
Publisher: Bookthrift
ISBN: 9780896730878
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The nude has been interpreted through the vision of artists in countless ways -- the classical splendor of ancient Hellas, the innocence of Botticelli's Venus, the voluptuous women of Rubens, the magnificent sculptures of Michelangelo and Rodin, the modern nudes of Modigliani and Picasso, the famous Muybridge sequence photographs of the human figure in motion.
Publisher: Bookthrift
ISBN: 9780896730878
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The nude has been interpreted through the vision of artists in countless ways -- the classical splendor of ancient Hellas, the innocence of Botticelli's Venus, the voluptuous women of Rubens, the magnificent sculptures of Michelangelo and Rodin, the modern nudes of Modigliani and Picasso, the famous Muybridge sequence photographs of the human figure in motion.