Naked - Bram Dijkstra
the nude in America
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A resplendent presentation of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture, from the eighteenth century to the present. With more than four hundred color illustrations, this is the most thorough and wide-reaching survey of the representation of the male and female nude in American visual culture yet published. Bram Dijkstra explores the history of the subject from its earliest manifestations in the paintings of John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West to the taboo-shredding imagery of late-twentieth-century artists such as Alice Neel, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eric Fischl, and John Currin. Dijkstra is a cultural historian who refuses to separate "high" and "low" art, charting instead such momentous historical events as the discovery of pubic hair, the invasion of the pin-up queens, "the inexorable rise of the breast," and the puzzling fluctuations of American prudery. Naked also examines the effects of the early twentieth century's infatuation with Freudian psychoanalysis and the more recent fascinati...
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Original black cloth, dust jacket, illustrations in colour, 4to.; Light tobacco smell. [Auteur: Dijkstra, Bram] [Pagina's: 476] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Rizzoli] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: Naked: the Nude in America]
