{"product_id":"the-naked-nude-by-frances-borzello-9780500296677","title":"The Naked Nude","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless—its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this newly updated study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilised, sanitised, perfected nude of Kenneth Clark's classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Nude: A Study in Ideal Form\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), with today's depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, depicting variously gendered bodies, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradictions that surround the body in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorzello explores the role of the nude in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, looking at the work of a wide range of international artists creating contemporary nudes. Her fascinating text is complemented by a profusion of well-chosen, unusual and beautifully reproduced illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story begins with a tale of life, death and resurrection—an investigation into how and why the nude has survived and flourished in an art world that prematurely announced its demise. Subsequent chapters take a thematic approach, focusing in turn on Body art and Performance art, the new perspectives of women artists, the nude in painting, portraiture and sculpture, and in its most extreme and graphic expressions that intentionally push the boundaries of both art and our comfort zone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final chapter illustrates radical developments in art and culture over the last decade, focusing in particular on artworks by women, trans artists, and artists of colour. Borzello links these works to their art-historical and political predecessors, demonstrating the continually unending capacity of the nude to disrupt traditional hierarchies and gender categories in life and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363130556652,"sku":"9780500296677","price":48.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/72bab71da241b491768fa2ccf17d89ad.jpg?v=1772931459","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-naked-nude-by-frances-borzello-9780500296677","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}