Why Are They All Naked? The History of Nudity in Art
«Why are they all naked?» — such a question inevitably arises in the head of a visitor to the halls of ancient art or Renaissance art, and sometimes it stuns even a viewer of contemporary art. The answer will be...
different for each era, and art historian Yulia Pavlotskaya has gathered them in her book.
You will learn: - Why nudity was once glorified and then prohibited. - Why Michelangelo sculpted David naked, shocking the people of Florence. - Why 18th-century aristocrats commissioned their portraits in the guise of naked goddesses. - Why Picasso and Modigliani broke the forms of the body, creating a new language of nudity. - How photographers and artists of the 20th century made the naked body an instrument of rebellion against conventions.
«Why are they all naked?» — such a question inevitably arises in the head of a visitor to the halls of ancient art or Renaissance art, and sometimes it stuns even a viewer of contemporary art. The answer will be different for each era, and art historian Yulia Pavlotskaya has gathered them in her book.
You will learn: - Why nudity was once glorified and then prohibited. - Why Michelangelo sculpted David naked, shocking the people of Florence. - Why 18th-century aristocrats commissioned their portraits in the guise of naked goddesses. - Why Picasso and Modigliani broke the forms of the body, creating a new language of nudity. - How photographers and artists of the 20th century made the naked body an instrument of rebellion against conventions.
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