The Nude:
A Study in Ideal Form
Kenneth Clark

Paper | 1972 | $42.00 / £28.95 | ISBN: 9780691017884
583 pp.

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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.

Review:

"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

"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

This book has been translated into:

• French
• Chinese (Complex)
• Japanese

Series:

• The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Bollingen Series (General)

Subject Area:

• Art and Architecture

Cloth: Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada)
Paper: Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada)

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