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The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form Bollingen Series XXXV 2 AW Mellon Lectures Arts
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A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Subject
- Art
- Event
- Bollingen Series
- Volume
- Two
- Lecture Number
- XXXV
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Lecture
- A.W. Mellon
- Gallery
- National Gallery of Art
- ISBN
- 9780691017884
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691017883
ISBN-13
9780691017884
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1001568
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nude : a Study in Ideal Form
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Criticism & Theory, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, History / General
Publication Year
1972
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Book Series
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
32 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
74-164124
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Probably no one else alive today writes about art with Sir Kenneth Clark's precise combination of intelligence, urbanity, and erudition, and certainly his talent has nowhere been better applied than in this volume. . . . This is an important book and a fascinating one., Probably no one else alive today writes about art with Sir Kenneth's precise combination of intelligence, urbanity, and erudition. . . . This is an important book and a fascinating one, and the illustrations do much to illuminate it., A book which is as much a pleasure to read as it is informative and provocative. . . . [Clark's] command of the English language is rivaled only by the breadth of his curiosity and the sharpness of his visual memory., A feminist critique of a male (and Western) view of the Tantric tradition [and also] a balanced reassessment of a tradition too long misunderstood., "Probably no one else alive today writes about art with Sir Kenneths precise combination of intelligence, urbanity, and erudition. . . . This is an important book and a fascinating one, and the illustrations do much to illuminate it."-- The New Yorker, The simple and often quite beautiful statement of a man of letters . . . [a] book which is as much a pleasure to read as it is informative and provocative., "A feminist critique of a male (and Western) view of the Tantric tradition [and also] a balanced reassessment of a tradition too long misunderstood." -- Parabola, "Probably no one else alive today writes about art with Sir Kenneth's precise combination of intelligence, urbanity, and erudition. . . . This is an important book and a fascinating one, and the illustrations do much to illuminate it."-- The New Yorker, The simple and often quite beautiful statement of a man of letters . . . [in] a book which is as much a pleasure to read as it is informative and provocative. -- The New York Times, The simple and often quite beautiful statement of a man of letters . . . [in] a book which is as much a pleasure to read as it is informative and provocative., "The simple and often quite beautiful statement of a man of letters . . . [in] a book which is as much a pleasure to read as it is informative and provocative."-- The New York Times, A feminist critique of a male (and Western) view of the Tantric tradition [and also] a balanced reassessment of a tradition too long misunderstood. -- Parabola, "A feminist critique of a male (and Western) view of the Tantric tradition [and also] a balanced reassessment of a tradition too long misunderstood."-- Parabola, Probably no one else alive today writes about art with Sir Kenneth's precise combination of intelligence, urbanity, and erudition. . . . This is an important book and a fascinating one, and the illustrations do much to illuminate it. -- The New Yorker, "Probably no one else alive today writes about art with Sir Kenneth's precise combination of intelligence, urbanity, and erudition. . . . This is an important book and a fascinating one, and the illustrations do much to illuminate it." -- The New Yorker, "The simple and often quite beautiful statement of a man of letters . . . [in] a book which is as much a pleasure to read as it is informative and provocative." -- The New York Times
Series Volume Number
2
Synopsis
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., 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."
LC Classification Number
N7570.C55 1972
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