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Striking a Pose
A Handy Guide to the Male Nude
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What would Jimi Hendrix, Clint Eastwood, Ricky Gervais, Stephen King, and over a hundred other pop culture icons look like if they posed for your Live Drawing Class?
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Inspired by her own art students' struggles and triumphs with nude life drawing, Anita Kunz turns her brushes to nearly 150 speculative portraits of famous figures, stripped of their vanities and as unpretentiously posed as life models. Alone or grouped, male marvels and monsters and musicians stand, lean, and sit for the imaginary eye of the acclaimed painter and illustrator.
Drawn with a casual wit, Kunz's caricatures combine with naturalism to undercut the mystique of her subjects. The well-known faces become less significant than the unknown bodies, as though the celebrities and creators are descending from their pedestals in order to pose.
Less directly comic or polemical than her previous Another History Of Art (Fantagraphics, 2021), Striking a Pose nevertheless includes a feminist flip on the role of the nude model. Kunz upends historical gender prejudices within the fine art world while also finding a welcoming humour in the bathos of the naked body.
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Striking a Pose by Anita Kunz is receiving praise for its vibrant illustrations and thought-provoking content, offering a unique artistic take on popular culture. Readers appreciate Kunz's distinctive style, which combines humour and social commentary, effectively engaging audiences. The book is celebrated for its visually stunning presentation and insightful exploration of the intersection between art and current social issues.
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ISBN: 9781683968832
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 21 November 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Illustration: 152 Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 166.0mm
Height: 249.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 152
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About the Author
Anita Kunz is an acclaimed illustrator and painter whose work has graced the covers of the New Yorker, Time, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, and many other mass circulation periodicals. She was named one of the 50 most influential women in Canada by the NationalPost. She was the first woman and the first Canadian to have a solo show at the Library of Congress. She has been appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor. She lives in Toronto.
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