The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the
nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in
Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries,
as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around
differences of class, gender, age, and race. Author Richard Leppert
relates the visual history of how the naked body intersects with
the foundational characteristics of what it is to be human,
measured against a range of basic emotions (happiness, delight, and
desire; fear, anxiety, and abjection) and read in the context of
changing social and cultural realities. The bodies comprising the
Western nude are variously pleasured or tormented, ecstatic or
bored, pleased or horrified. In short, as this volume amply
demonstrates, the nude in Western art is a terrain on whose surface
is written a summation of Western history: its glory but also its
degradation.
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